This is an analysis of the poem On The Trek that begins with:
Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day,
With sun above and silent veldt below; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcBdedeabab fgfghbhB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010101011101 0101110101 111110100010101 10111010101 1110111000100001 11101010101 101010101110101 111010111 001011011010101 00101010101 1010101010101001 10101010101 101011100011101 11100111111 101011111010101 111010111 101100101010011 11101010111 111111100010101 11100010101 110101001110101 11100010101 111110101110101 111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, shall are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word now at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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