This is an analysis of the poem The Road To Avignon that begins with:
A Minstrel stands on a marble stair,
Blown by the bright wind, debonair; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccBBBD eebbffccBBBD XeaaccccBBBD ccggccccBBBD XXhhXcccBBBD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 11011101 0110101001 0110100101 10101011 111010101 010110101 110100101 1010101 01110101 01010101 1100001 010110101 11110101 011101001 0101101110 011100101 110100101 010100101 110100101 1010101 01110101 01010101 1100001 101100100 10110101 001011101 011100101 01010111 1100100101 0101000101 110010111 1010101 01110101 01010101 1100001 11100101 101101101 111010111 010011101 01011001001 1100101111 010100101 110100101 1010101 01110101 01010101 1100001 11111100 10111001 111101101 0110101101 110100110 0101100101 010100101 101001011 1010101 01110101 01010101 1100001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, avignon, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines avignon is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word spring at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Road To Avignon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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