This is an analysis of the poem For Anyone Anticipating To Be Convinced that begins with:
There is nothing about this train that moves backward.
When the conductor announced, 'All Aboard'......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbc cddd cXacd ccadeXdeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001011110 1001001110 111010 111011100010010 1101010101 011101010010101 10010001000101 100011010100 001010001101 11011111 110010011101 00101001 011010001010 1110111101 1011111 1100010100001 11010 010110100 0010011 1111111010 1010010111 0110001011010 10101011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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