This is an analysis of the poem An Old Bush Road that begins with:
Dear old road, wheel-worn and broken,
Winding thro' the forest green, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAaabcdc efffegXg faXaffhf AibiefXf efbfjkXk fldlijij imimieee bibieghgXbaaAdeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 1010101 10111011 1010101 11101110 1010101 00111010 1010101 10101010 1010101 10110010 10010101 10101010 1110101 10111011 1011111 10111010 1110101 11111010 10100101 10101010 1010101 10100010 1010001 11111110 1010111 10111010 1010001 11111110 1110101 10110011 1011101 10101010 1110101 11101010 1000101 11101010 1110011 10101010 1110111 11101010 1011101 10101010 1010101 10111110 1110111 10101010 1110101 10111110 1011001 10101110 1011111 10111010 1110101 10101110 10010101 11111010 1111101 11101110 11100001 11101010 1011001 10111010 1010101 11011110 1010111 00111110 1010101 10101010 1010101 10111110 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, here are repeated.
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