This is an analysis of the poem Country Roads ~ White Horse Road that begins with:
By White Horse Tavern, White Horse Road
In olden days wound down;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcdXXXd eaeeacbXXXb dbddbcXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 010111 110010101 110010101 010101 11111111 110111 01110100 01010100 11011100 010110 11011011 110101 11010101 11011101 110111 01011111 110111 01011100 01010100 01010100 010101 01010111 1101101 110110101 110011101 011101 10011101 111101 11111100 01010100 11110100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, lilydale are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lilydale is repeated).
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