This is an analysis of the poem The Cross Roads; Or, The Haymaker's Story that begins with:
Stopt by the storm, that long in sullen black
From the south-west stained its encroaching track,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccccccddeeffccddgg hhXXddbb ddddeeiihhbbaaaaddffhhggbbhhggggjjjjbbccggiihhkkcccciiddbbddddaallccbbhhbbhheebbbbddaaaaccggggdXmmggXigghhggiiddee iibbnnXmddbblliibbooXmggbbffccbXgg eeddhhddeeddllggbbgggghhffeehhccpp gXhheejjggggmmbbhhppggppggeellcccchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,8,114,34,34,75,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110101 0011100101 11010000101 1011110101 1111110101 11010010101 1001110001 01111100101 1101110111 1101110101 0111010101 1111010101 1101110001 1101111101 11001010101 1111001101 10110011101 1101010101 0111001101 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 01001011001 1101111101 1101011101 1101011101 0111001101 1101110111 1111010111 1111011111 1111011101 1101110111 1111010111 1101000101 1111110101 1101011101 1001111101 11111110101 0111011101 10110001111 0111110101 1101011110 1101111101 0101011101 1111000101 1111101101 1111110111 1011110101 1111110111 0111110101 1101010101 1111100001 1101010101 1101010111 1001011111 1101010001 1111111100 1111110101 1101011110 1101110111 1101010101 11010101001 01110101001 1101010101 1101011011 1111000111 1101010101 1001011101 0101110001 1111110101 1111010111 0101111111 1101110101 1111001101 1101010101 1111010101 110011100101 0101010101 1101011001 1111011101 10011010101 0101010001 1101010101 1111010101 1111011101 1111110101 1101011111 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111111101 0101011111 1101110101 1111110101 0101010101 1111011101 1111110101 1111011101 1111010111 1101001101 1111110101 1111010101 110101101001 1111110101 1111110111 1111111101 1111110101 0101110101 111110101 0101011101 11010010001 1101011101 1111111101 1001000101 1101001101 110101100111 0101000101 1101000101 1111000101 1111010001 1111010101 110111011001 1111010101 1001011101 1101010101 1111011111 1111111101 1111110110 01010101001 1101101101 1100110101 1101011111 1111111111 1111010111 1111111110 0101011111 11011100001 1101010101 1111011101 0111010101 1111001101 1011010101 1101110101 1011100111 1111010111 1101010111 1111111101 1101010101 1111010101 0011110101 11111100101 1111010111 1100111011 01001110101 0111111101 0111111101 11110001001 11001110101 1111000101 1111010101 1101000111 1101110101 10011111101 01110001101 1101010101 1101010111 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 1111011101 11010101001 1011110101 11010100101 11110001001 0101110101 11011001001 0101010101 0101010110 1101110101 0101000101 0101010111 1101000101 1001010101 1111010101 11011111011 1101010111 1101110101 1101110101 1011011101 1111010101 111101111 1100000101 0101010101 11010011101 1011100111 01001110101 11001010111 1111100111 11111111010 11110100010 1111111100 1101010101 1101111111 01001010100 1101000101 1101110101 1001011101 11010011101 111100011 1111010101 0111000111 1111011111 0111011101 01010010001 1111110101 0101011110 0100111111 1101110111 1111011101 1101011101 1101010100 0111010101 1110110101 0101011101 11001011101 0101010101 1001010101 110111111 1101010111 1111110101 1101110101 1101010111 0101010101 1111110111 1101011101 1101110101 1101111111 1101111111 0101110111 1101110111 11010011111 1111011101 1101001101 1101010101 11110101110 11010101010 1101010101 1111000111 1101110101 1101111101 100111100111 1111010101 1111111111 1111011101 11010101001 0101010111 11001110101 0111011100 1001110101 0101001100 1111111111 0111011100 01111101110 1111100101 1111011101 0101010010 11110111001 1101110101 1101011101 1111110101 1110011101 1101110101 1111010111 1101011101 1001011101 11101011111 1111110101 1101110001 11110010101 1101110001 1111011101 1111010101 0101011101 1101000101 1101011101 1111000101 10010001101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1843
- Average number of words per stanza: 341
- Amount of lines: 288
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, their, as, to, she, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Cross Roads; Or, The Haymaker's Story;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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