This is an analysis of The Railroad Station by Alice Duer Miller.

JUST a very common thing -
Shouts and whistles, bells that ring,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 1010101 1110111 1011001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1000101 1011101 1010111 1001101 1110101 1011100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

who, her