This is an analysis of the poem Departure that begins with:
It's little I care what path I take,
And where it leads it's little I care;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece cfcf abab gXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010111111 110101011 110011111 1111111 010111011 101101011 111011111 1010111111 11111101101 11111001001 0100100101 101001101001 1111111111 111100101 10110110101 1010111001 111110111 110100111 1010110111 10100111 110010111 1111111100 1101101011 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, it's, in, my, little, of, ' are repeated.
The author used the same words it's, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Departure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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