This is an analysis of the poem Verses On The Railroad Accident Near Copetown that begins with:

March, with his usual terrors armed,
Resolved again to mark his flight... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fafa gbXX ghgh bibi jkjk lele ijij XmmmXlala
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 100100101 01010101 100110111 01011111 1010001001 11110001 11110111 10100101 01110101 01010101 1110000101 110010101 10100111 11110101 11111111 11000101 10011101 11010011 11111110 01011110 111101001 11110101 11111111 110100101 011100101 01000101 11110101 11001101 01111101 11010001 11011111 11110111 010010101 11100111 11010011 11010101 110101001 11010101 11010101 01011101 010101100 01010111 11011101 10011101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; as is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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