This is an analysis of the poem Night Subway that begins with:
The nurse coming off her shift at the psychiatric ward
nodding over the Post, her surprisingly delicate legs...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbaXXXbXX Xccb Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101011010101 101001001001001 101010111010 101010110010 1010101101011 010001001110 100100010101 1010110110111 1001101100 0111101011010 1101111101010 10101111001 10110111101 111010110101 110110111001 0110101101001 11100100100 11001110 010001101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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