This is an analysis of the poem The Night Ride that begins with:
Gas flaring on the yellow platform; voices running up and down;
Milk-tins in cold dented silver; half-awake I stare,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdaeeedeadecbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010111010111 1101101010111 1101111111 0110010001 1010100101 11001001001010 11000101101 1000110100110 110100001001 1001011101 11010111110 111011101 111110010110 110101111001 10110110111 101110100111 10111010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 856
- Average number of words per stanza: 144
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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 Night Ride;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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