This is an analysis of the poem And The Trains Go On that begins with:
We stood at the back door
of the shop in the night air...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXXddebfegehcihifbXeehXgfbjfXdikXbXkddidjciebffjebfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 0010011 101011 01011110 10011110 111111 0101101 0110110 00101111 111101 1111 1111110 100111 11010110 1111111 1001001 1110010 0011101 110111 1001111 01010011 1010010110 001100010 010011 101101 110001 101010 10110110 1111111 01001011 11111101 010110101 10100101 011000110 1101101 10101010 11010101 10010101 1011111 001011111 10110111 010011111 11010111 001100 01010101 1100101 1011111 111101 1011011 0101111 0111001 010111 1111111 1110101 001100101 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1691
- Average number of words per stanza: 335
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, said are repeated.
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- summary of And The Trains Go On;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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