This is an analysis of the poem In Paths Untrodden that begins with:
IN paths untrodden,
In the growth by margins of pond-waters,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcXcdaeXeXaffbXXdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01100 0011100110 01001101001 01010111100010 1010001000 111111000111 101110111010111 1 101001111110010 11 111101001001 1001101111010 1100110001011101111 11111 10110111101001101 101 0101110111010010 01000110101 1001100101 101001011011011 101111111011 0101001111 010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1151
- Average number of words per stanza: 179
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; from, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, to are repeated.
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