The Traveller by Allen Tate: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Traveller that begins with:

To Archibald MacLeish
The afternoon with heavy hours...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd ebeb abab dfdf gaga ebebXgege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101 010101010 110101001 111111010 01010001 11010001 011001001 100101001 01010101 01010001 01010101 11010101 01000101 110101010 11010011 101111010 10010001 11010101 01010111 01010101 0011101001 01010101 11010101 1110111 01110111 01010101 11010001 01000101 010101101 11110101 11101111 10110101 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Traveller;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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