This is an analysis of the poem The Dull Road that begins with:
It's the dull road that leads to the gay road;
The practice that leads to success; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efefXcfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011110011 01011001 011110011 001011100 0011110010 11001011 0010010110 01001001 0010110110 101001111 1010110110 101111001 0011010110 010100101 111010110 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; road, that, leads, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Dull Road;
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- idea of the verse;
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