Poem Analysis of To The West by William Percy French for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To The West that begins with:

The Midland Great Western is doing its best,
And the circular ticket is safe in my vest; ...

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Rhyme scheme: aabb aaXb XXXb aaXb XXXb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: limerick
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 01111001001 101001001011 111111011001 100100001011 01111001001 111001101111 101111111101 100100001011 11011110110 1010011101101 101001001011 111101001011 101010111011 01101011001 01011101011 01111001011 01111001001 101001001001 101011111101 1101001101
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
Average number of words per stanza: 37
Amount of lines: 20
Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word pins at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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To The West by William Percy French: poem analysis

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