This is an analysis of the poem The Newport Railway that begins with:

Success to the Newport Railway,
Along the braes of the Silvery Tay,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbbXcdddccbba Xcbb bbbddbb dbabb abXbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,4,7,5,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001011 0101001001 100110 010111101001 111010101 0010111 1011010001011 0101011010 00101001 100001011 11011111 11010101 101111111 1100101001 001011 0101100001 001110101 10110101 010101101001 10010001 11010101 111111101 11010010 111111001 110010010011 100100101 11110111 010111 101011 11111 010111101001 01001000001011 1001011001 110100010 110011 111110 10101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, by, railway are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word tay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Newport Railway;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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