This is an analysis of the poem From A Railway Carriage that begins with:
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaaaeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010110 1011010110 11001110010 11011010110 1001001101 1111101 11001001011 1010101 1001110110 1101110010 100111110 11001110010 1001101001 10010111 11001110010 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, of, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
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