This is an analysis of the poem The Station Agent's Story that begins with:
Take a seat in the shade here, lady;
It's tiresome, I know, to wait;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdad efgfahbh afifjkbk Xlflhbeb ilalXccX lXaXXjlj mjbjbjcj ahihhlil jfaXgglX XdlX bXibcmXm ibibgdid afcfhjcj echcXXlX bbcbcclX aklXedad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001110 01001101 110110010 0111001 100110110 01001011 11110100 10111011 110011011 1110101 111010010 1111001 10101010 11101001 111010101 1111111 10101010 11111001 11001010 1011101 10111011 11001101 10010111 11001101 110111011 1010101 11001011 11011001 111110011 1110111 110010010 1101111 111001110 1101101 11101110 11101001 101111000 0110111 111111110 1101011 111010110 0111111 111110010 11111101 111010010 1100111 0110000101 0100101 111100101 1111001 11100011 10100111 1010110011 111101 01101010 10100101 101101010 0010101 11101110 00101101 110110011 1111001 111001010 1100101 11011111 11101111 11110010 11111101 100110111 1111111 11010110 101101110 111010110 1110111 1011010110 100111 011111110 1110101 11101110 11001101 11011010 11111001 11000010 00101001 111010010 1100101 01011010 00100101 11011010 11111011 111111010 1111111 10101110 11011101 101001010 1111001 111110011 1101111 101100010 1101101 010100010 1010111 111010010 11111011 00111000 11111101 101101110 10111010 011111010 0010101 1111010110 1111111 111011010 11110100 10111110 11111011 111011010 1011111 010110010 11011010 1110110010 010111 1111010010 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, you, i, their, as, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Station Agent's Story;
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