This is an analysis of the poem The Glow Worm that begins with:
The pale road winds faintly upward into the dark skies,
And beside it on the rough grass that the wind invisibly stirs, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaababcddcefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111101000011 1010101110110001 10111011010100 1010000110111 1010101110101 1101001010111 1010111010101 1110101110111 1101010001011 1111111010011 1101011100101 110000100110111 110101110100101 0110111010101 10101100000101 1010010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 939
- Average number of words per stanza: 167
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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