This is an analysis of the poem The Pathway Of The Living that begins with:
The pathway of the living is our ever-present care.
Let us do our best to smooth it and to make it bright and fair;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01100100110011 111110101010111 111000101010111 11100101110001 01100101110111 1110101011101001 111110111111101 1010111010011001 01100101111101 111010101110111 111100101110101 101010100011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, to, of, can, there, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, there are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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