This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Tram that begins with:
I walked an unfamiliar street
And suddenly heard a raven's cry,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd ebef ggHI cjkj glli ejbX jfjm Xijg lnHI daie cXln gjll jolX kbXXXgoem
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 110010101 10100111010 010101110 11110011 1010001 100110101 01001001 0110111 111000101 1101 1011 11110101010 11101001 1001001010 11001110 11010101 011111101001 01011101 1110010101 111110110 0101101 1110101111 01000100001 010110 0110001111 01010011000 01001111 00110011110 01010011111 010100010 1001001101010 10011011 011101011 1101 1011 10011111 1111100010 11111101 001001111 11101110 1100101 10101110010 1001101 11101110 01010011011 1011111010 0011001010 1010010111 0100101101 111001 1111001 1101101010 10010101 110101011001 101001111 1111101001 0010111001 100110111 1111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stop connects the lines.
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- summary of The Lost Tram;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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