This is an analysis of the poem A Fire-Truck that begins with:
Right down the shocked street with a
siren-blast...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdbc edfgef ghXifhi jgjegX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,6,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100 101 111110000 1 10110111 1 10011 11010001001 1100101001 010 011101011 1 1001010 100101001 1001 11110101 101 1111001110 1 111101 11101101101 0011 10111110 01 1101010001 01101010 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Fire-Truck;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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