This is an analysis of the poem Do Not Proceed Beyond This Point without a Guide that begins with:
The official warning, nailed to a hemlock,
Doesn't say why. I stand with my back to it,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcad XbXeX ffbXc dfedd bXdbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101010011 10111101100 011111111 1101011 101101010111 01010110111 110101010 11011111010 1111010101 011101101 110110010101 10110101110 111010101 10010101110 11111101010 1110110011 10111100110 100101111110 10111111 1100111111 01011000100001 11010111111 01111101101 11111011111 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, and, it are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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