This is an analysis of the poem The Long Road Home that begins with:
When I go back from Billy's place I always have to roam
The mazy road, the crazy road that leads the long way home.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeXXf gXddgg hhddii jjXXkk Xkllee kkddhh ffjjXX kkmmkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101111101 01010101110111 111110111110101 010101110110101 11011111010101 11111101110101 111111011111000 111111010111001 110101011011110 111111010101010 111101010101110 111001010111110 01110111110101 010111110101110 11110101110101 01011101010101 110111011101010 110110111101010 11110101010101 11110111010101 11110111111111 11110101101101 010111010111010 111101110111010 11111101110111 1111111100111011 110111111101010 110111110101010 010111010101010 111111111101110 101101111111010 110101011101010 11110101111101 11110101110101 110101011111010 110111011111010 011101011101010 111111110111010 010111110101001 010110110111000 011111011111010 111111010111010 111101010111010 110101111111010 11011111110111 01010101010111 11010111010101000 11011111110111000 1010110110111010 110101011101010 1111011111111011 111111110101111 011101011111010 1101011111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to, ma are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ma is repeated).
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- summary of The Long Road Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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