This is an analysis of the poem On A Bus that begins with:
With no traffic to fight...
Or third finger to thrust up, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcadX bcXcXdaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001 1110011 01111111 1111010 11101 00111111 0101001001001 11101111011 111011011 1100101001 1100101 11101 10111101 1011011011 0101011010 01010100110 10100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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