This is an analysis of the poem A Lift By The Way that begins with:
When the road it is rough and the sun it is strong,
And the miles of the country seem long and more long,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebb cXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101001101001 1010001011111 111011001001 101001001101 01001101001 01001001011 010111010011 01101101101 01001011001 101111011011 01001101001 11101101101 01011011111 01011111011 11011011011 11101101101 11111001011 01011011011 11111001001 01011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, it, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, it are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word way at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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