This is an analysis of the poem On Raglan Road that begins with:
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbbXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111101110111 10111101111111 110101110100101 11111001011010001 1101001011100101 001011101010101 01011101111101 11111111110100101 1101001110010111 00101110110111 1111101111101001 00111101111110101 101011111110101 01011100110101 11111111010101 1010101110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, day, of, and, her, gave are repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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