This is an analysis of the poem The Goat Paths that begins with:
The crooked paths go every way
Upon the hill - they wind about ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXacXcac XdcXaa aeeXdXee aeaaeaeeXdX caXeaeXeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,8,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111001 01011101 1010011 0010100 11011101 1010100 1011101 1111111 1010101 1011001 0010100 0011101 1000100 0010001 1011111 1010101 01011101 11110111 0010101 001010 1011101 0010001 1010101 0010101 0101111 1110111 1110101 1110101 0010101 11111101 1111101 1111111 001010 0011101 0010001 0110100 1111111 1010100 1110101 1010101 0010101 1110111 1011101 1010101 0010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, in, i, to, something are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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