This is an analysis of the poem Faintheart In A Railway Train that begins with:

At nine in the morning there passed a church,
At ten there passed me by the sea,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXab bXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1100101101 11111101 11010111 110100111 1110111 0100101111 11011001110 11111011101 1011111010 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; at, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.

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