This is an analysis of the poem On the Evening Train that begins with:
Night after night, week after week, month after month and year after year,
Clad in her garments of dingy black, ragged and wrinkled, she's waiting... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa ccdd bbcXX eeXXa aaff ggcc ffee cXaaXddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,5,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011101110111101 100100101101101101 100100110101100111 100100101100101101 1001111111001001101 10110010011011001 1011001011101101101 110101000110101 111100011111111101 1101000101010110 1010110101110110111 100111001100101 010010101011101101 111011110011101001 01000111011010010111 110100111 1100110101 1011010010110010101 1001001010010111 10110111 01001101010 011101111100101 11010101110110111 010111011110101 111111101100110101 10101111100111 111101001011000010001 100100101110111 100110110111111011001 101010100111101001 10110010111100101101 111111011111101 100100101011101101 100011111100111 11110010101011101 01110001011100110101 1100101101100110101 101011010110101 111110110010010111 110101101110101101 10111110101010100101 110110101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; after, and, in, she, her, of, to, or, with are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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