This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas, On Seeing The 'Huron' Locomotive that begins with:
The Iron Horse has reached at last Cayuga's heights so near;
Look out, ye men of Brantford, now, for soon he will be here!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee ffXgg ggbb bbbff bbdd bbff ffff fXaa hhffXffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,4,5,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011111100111 11110101111001 11010101010111 1101001111101001 01011111111101 11011101110111 11110101111101 11010101110101 01010101110101 110010101110101 11111101010101 11001101111101 11010101010100 11111101010101 1111010111111 1 01001101110101 110101011101110 110111011001110 11011101110101 11110101110101 11110101111111 1111111101110 1 11110101110111 10110101111101 110101010101001 01010110110111 010111010100101 01010101110001 01010101111101 010011101110111 11011101110101 010001010111111 110100110101001 010101111100101 01111101010101 11011101010101 111101000011001 11110101110010 11110101110001 01110100111111 11010001011101 11011101110111 11110101111001 11001001110101 11011101010101 111111010111001 111101110100110 111101010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, your, his, and, in, as, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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