This is an analysis of the poem The Joys Of The Road that begins with:
NOW the joys of the road are chiefly these:
A crimson touch on the hard-wood trees;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff gg bb gg hh aa ii cc jj jj cc ff ggXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011101 010110111 01010111 010110111 010011111 010110101 010100101 010100101 01010100 101010101 010101001 011110101 010100101 01010101 11011101 101010111 010010101 0111101001 010101010 011101110 1100111001 110101001 100011111 1100100011 110110101 11011001001 111111111 001010111 010100101 101011111 011100101 010100111 010010101 010100101 010010101 111110101 110100101 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, from, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words a, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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