This is an analysis of the poem The Way that begins with:
THERE is a magic pathway through the wood,
There is a current in the troubled stream, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBAB acac dedeXaBAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011101 1001000101 0101010111 010001 1101110101 0101011111 1101010001 0101 1111110001 1111110101 0111000101 1101 1001011101 1001000101 0101010111 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, nor, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, a are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Way;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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