This is an analysis of the poem In A Subway Station that begins with:

After a year I came again to the place;
The tireless lights and the reverberation, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXCdbbXXXXXbbdAC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10011101001 010011001010 010100111001 010100100101 110101011111 0101110101 1100111101 0101010101 1011001101 0111000111 110101011110 1101010110110 1111000111 1111111101 1111010101 10011101001 010100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 787
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, when are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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