This is an analysis of the poem Train Window that begins with:

Small towns
Crawling out of their green shirts…...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXabccXXdXdXaXAbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 1010111 10001 10010001 101 101101 00101 10101 11110 111111 1101101010 11101010 11101 1001001 11 0010001 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tzz is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines church is repeated).

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  • summary of Train Window;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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