This is an analysis of the poem The Trains that begins with:
Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass
in a splendour of power, with a sound like thunder...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacdD eXbebXbcd fdfD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101011 0010010001110 1001010 0100110011 011110 011100110010 011101 110010101110 1011110111 01001010 11010011010 1111010 111111110100 10111111110 100010110 01010111010 10110100111 11001100110 111100111001 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Trains;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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