This is an analysis of the poem The Wayfarer that begins with:
I. THE TREES
THERE is no glory of the sunset here!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadaaXcca beb ab cd fd XEDDed eDDE XXaXacc baXaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,3,2,2,2,6,4,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1011000111 10010101001 1101010101 011101 01001101 10011 1111010101 11010010101 0111110001 1111010101 101 0101101111 010101 01010100100 110101 0101011101 010111 1111111011 111101 101010 01010101 11110101 11010101 11010011 01011101 11010111 11110101 11010101 01010101 1100 01000111 11110101 1101100 11110111 11010111 111100011 11111101 110110101 11001100 01111001 01000111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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