This is an analysis of the poem The Road Back that begins with:
The car is heavy with children
tugged back from summer, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcdbadcXcaebccfXeaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010010 11010 1101101 111001010 10101 011111 110111001 0111110 101110 111101 111111 101111 0110 1101001010 110110001 0111 1101101 101100 1001 0111001 1001 1001010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word swept is repeated.
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