This is an analysis of The Jaffa And Jerusalem Railway by Eugene Field.

A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there;
A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaacc XXXXXcc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,7,
  • Metre: 01001010101010101 0101010101010101 1101110101010101 0101010101010101 00010101110010101 0111100111010100 0111010101011101 0111011001010101 1100110101010101 0101110101010101 1100110111110001 0101010111010100 111101111101010 1 010101000101100000 010010001011001 01011000011010000 1110101010100 0111010111010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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