This is an analysis of the poem On The Road that begins with:
October, and eleven after dark:
Both mist and night. Among us in the coach ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXddefegceehdhijklfcmencagdhXlXakcaeblcXankahldchchmdfgcglhheideXnidljbfdihehXdXdaggXfhdechhecXehXbgceXeheed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 111,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 1111011001 1111010101 1110010111 0110010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101111111 0100010101 1011010111 1101110101 1101000111 0101111101 0101011101 1001100111 1111110111 0101010001 00010111001 1101010100 0101110111 0101101111 1101011101 0101011100 1001111101 1101111001 0111010111 1111010101 1011011101 1110011101 0101011101 1111001001 11110010001 1001010111 1100010101 1111010111 1111110111 1101011111 0101101101 11110011001 1101010001 0101110011 11011110 10 111010101001 0101010101 1110110111 1111111111 1001000101 10110101111 0111110101 0111110101 11010010101 1111100101 1011010101 1100111101 1011110111 0101110111 0101010101 1100011101 1101000101 1001011001 10110111010 0101010011 11001010101 1101111111 1011011101 1001011101 0100110001 0101100101 1100110101 1001001111 1011010101 1111101110 1101110001 1111100101 0101010101 1101111101 1101011010 1101011101 0101101100 1111110110 1001111100 0111110110 1001010101 1011010101 1001010011 1011011101 1111011111 1111011111 110 1011010101 0110110011 1011010111 10110100101 1101010101 1100010111 1011011001 11010011010 0101010001 1001110101 01110010111 1111110101 1101110111 1100111001 1011110101 11011101000 1111110111 1100111100 0001111001 1101111101 0111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4858
- Average number of words per stanza: 889
- Amount of lines: 111
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, curse, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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