This is an analysis of the poem Wallace Stevens On His Way To Work that begins with:
He would leave early and walk slowly
As if balancing books ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaccdcbdbccXeXdXcXbcXdbdeaabdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101110 101001 10101010010 0010101110 01001000010 1001010001 01001010111 10100101001 11110011 0101101011010 1110100101010 01011010011 11010000101 1001010101011 110101001 101111111011010 10110010 1011011101 001001010011 1101100001 001010110101 11000100110 1110001100010 01010100101 0100000101010 101101111 011011110010 011011111100 0100100100 0110110101010 0101110001 010110111101 01010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1555
- Average number of words per stanza: 238
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; his, and are repeated.
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