This is an analysis of the poem To A Locomotive In Winter that begins with:
THEE for my recitative!
Thee in the driving storm, even as now--the snow--the winter-day... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdebXfgceXdXbbfcaaXgb XgchXbhXgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111000 1001011011010101 010 1011001101010111 010 111001010111001 11001110110101110 100111 1100110111110000 10 1101011101 1111010101010010 0111011100111 1101101110100100 111 1101010100100100 111111111100010 1001010010110100 100 1111011101101111 1 0110101011101 111101010101 1111010101 11010 111101110101101 11 11010101011010011 111011 1010011111010 1101010101110101 1101111101 11001010101 0011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 895
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long 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; thee, thy, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thee, thy, by are repeated.
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