This is an analysis of the poem Traveller's Rest that begins with:
When you are tired of the long road and the open sky,
I wish it may be my door that you're passing by:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbaa bbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001110101 110101111101 110101111011 11110011110111 11100101110001 101011110001 1110110111111 1011010111101 111110110111 11101111110 101110111101 11010101011 11011000111 100010110101 11111110101 11101100100011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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- summary of Traveller's Rest;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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