This is an analysis of the poem Stretcher Case that begins with:
He woke; the clank and racket of the train
Kept time with angry throbbings in his brain. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbbbX bXccddeea a ffffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,9,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110001 1101010001 11011111001 1111000101 11110100111 1001010101 1101010101 10010 10111 0101010111 1101010101 0111010011 1101110101 01010011111 010111100110 10110101010 11010101111 1101010111 1111010111 1001110111 11010101001 1111010111 1101111001 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; he, and are repeated.
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