This is an analysis of the poem The Traveller that begins with:
As I rode in to Burrumbeet,
I met a man with funny feet;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbaX XXaXXX XaccXX XbccbX aabbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100 11010101 11110111 01011101 11011101 11110100 11100100 11011111 11111111 011111010 110111110 11110100 11100100 11011111 11111111 11111111 110111110 11110100 11100100 11011111 01010101 11111101 11011111 11110100 11110101 11010101 01011101 1101110011 1011011110 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Traveller;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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