This is an analysis of the poem The Chain Gang that begins with:
Borne in the car along a crowded way,
Sun-soaked, I saw the world like shadows glide,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001010101 1111011111 1101010101 1011011101 0111110101 1001011101 1101011101 1101010101 101111001010 11110111101 10111001001 011011101010 1101110101 0100010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Chain Gang;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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