This is an analysis of the poem A Railroad Eclogue that begins with:
Father: What brought thee back, lad?
Son: Father! the same feet...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc d Xd e cf g Xd h c hb iabXXXdjcb ak i ceeXXbjXgidXfXbX k kdc XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,2,10,2,1,16,1,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111 110011 1111111101 10111101 10101 1111111101 10110111011001 11111111011 1101010111 1011111 1111000 1101000101 10111111 11111 0101011111 1111011101 1010000111101 11010010001 1111011110 1111011101 11001000111 1111010101 1111011111 0110010101 1111111101 1011110101 11101010111 10111101110 101001 1110111 1101010011 1011110111 1111110101 1011110101 11111111010 10101011111 11010111000 0101111101 0110110001 0111110 1010 0101111101 1111111111 11011111111 100 101011101 11011110001 1111111101 1101110101 101110010110 1100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; father, wrong, each, as, it, thy, and, train are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines train is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word rail at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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