This is an analysis of the poem Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives that begins with:
Men with picked voices chant the names
of cities in a huge gallery: promises ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cXXbde fgdbX bfhiXXahfeccdaiedd g bX XX XbidiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,18,1,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 010001100100 11101011 001100 0101 01100010100 110001111 011100110 0110101 100010111 010010011 1111010 11011101 101011010 01101010 010100011100 1101101101 100011010 01001000101000 010 1101 10011111011 011 010101 011 10010 101101 11010 1100101010100 1001101010 101010111 101101 010 111101 101010110 0011010 0110 011 10110010 110101010 0110011000 10101010101 011011000 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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- summary of Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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