This is an analysis of the poem On The Road To The Sea that begins with:
We passed each other, turned and stopped for half an hour, then went our way,
I who make other women smile did not make you--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acaccaca cXdcddaddd aaefegfgfchfcfahhah afaf haahaXaeaeeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,10,19,4,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110111111101111 111101010111 1111110001 10110101 11111101111101 011101010011 1010111111100010 111111 01010101110011 1011 1111100111 11111101101 101111110100 11110101010101 1101 1111111101111 1101111 01010111011101 111101010010111 11011001010101 1111011101010101 11111111 00010101 11010111 1101110111 1101010111 1001 110101 1001010111 1111111 01011111 1111111011011111 11111111110101 1101 10110001010101001 11111111 11111011101 1101001001 1111010101 01011101010101 1101101101 11110111 11010100111 11110101 111101 111011101101 11010010011111011 001111101001011101 111101100101 011110101 1111101 1001010111 11111 111101 0101010111 110111110101 11 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, i, to, you, so, and, peace are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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