This is an analysis of the poem The Highwayman that begins with:
PART ONE
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b ccdeEd X aabffb X ggdHHD X iibhhb b iibiIX b ggiiii X b aadeed X gggjjg X iihbiIb X ggciic b iiaiia b ddfeEf X iikiik X ggdhhd X bbilli X ccdeEd bXggdHHD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,1,6,1,6,1,7,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 1 011010010010101 011010100101101 011010011100101 10100110 1010 0100110100111 1 1011110100101101 010010101100111 1100100100101001 1110010010 0101010 010010101001001 1 1001011001100111 1110011010111111 1100100101110101 10111110 101110 1001111000111 1 11001111010101 1101010011111 01010010011101 11101110 0111110 11011101110101 1 11110110100101 1110100101010101 10111101101101 1111111 111111 1101111111101 1 11010010111101 11100110100011101 1010100111001001 111010011 11110011 111101001011001001 11 1 10110010101111 111010110101101 101101010100101 0111110 1010 1101110100111 1 11110011110101 11101011000100101 100110100010111 111110010 1111110 111110100011111 1 11101001001001001 11101001000100101 11011110 110111 111111 111111 1101111111101 1 11001010110110 110011010010111 1111001010101110 11101011 1101011 010110100101110 1 010110101111101 1111001000100101 1111110111101 101110011 1110011 10100100111000101 1 11111110011101 1111001001111011 10100111001001 0100110 1010 01110110111111 1 1100101011001001 1011110011101 01111010111111 101010011 01010011 10010011111001 1 1111001101111 100110010100111 1101110011101 1101110 0111110 1110100111100101 1 11110111001001 00111001110100101 11001101011110101 111111011 11011011 111001101100101101 1 1100101111010001 1010010100101101 1010010011100101 0100110 1010 0100110100111 1 100101101100111 110011010110111 1100100101110101 10111110 101110 1001111000111
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 122
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; riding, of, his, twinkle, and, he, dark, me, moonlight, by, in, marching, they, her, at, tlot, on, highway, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his, they, she, tlot, when, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines riding, twinkle, daughter, moonlight, marching, window, midnight, highway are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases riding, marching connect the lines.
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- summary of The Highwayman;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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