This is an analysis of the poem The Forest Road that begins with:
The forest road,
The infinite straight road stretching away ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadbcefcXbgcgXcacbccfcabgXabXffabhgifahbfhfbcbiebhbgXffcbbdfifdX a Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101 0100111001 101101010101 00110010111 0101011101 1011111011 1001111111 111111011101 010101011101 1101011101 01111111101 1011011111 1111110101 1101010101 110111000010011 10010110111000101 1011110011 10110101101111111111 101101111101 0111111011 110111010011101 1111010101 1110011111 1110011111 0111111011 010101110101 100101110111 01111011001 0111010101 01011101011101 11010101000 1111111101 01001010101 1111010011 001100011111 01110001001 0100100011101 011111010111 100101111111010011 1011101110010101 11110101010001 1001010101110111 1101011101 11011101010101 000100010101111100101 01011110011101 1111011111010101 1011111101 111110001101 1001011101 101111010011 11110101011111 10011111010111 1101010111 10011101010001 000101011111 00110111111101 1101010111 110010010011 1111111101 11011101111111 0011111111 11110101001 011110110111 111100011101 1101110111 0101 1001111111 1111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1204
- Average number of words per stanza: 229
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; road, that, you, could, i, them, when, would, to, it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Forest Road;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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