This is an analysis of the poem Roads that begins with:
I LOVE roads:
The goddesses that dwell...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc deed cffc gXhg ijji biib hggh aaaa aaak heeh daaX illi leel XkgXXeaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 010011 1010100 111001 111 110111 010101 11101 10111 11111 101111 111101 011101 001111 10101 0110101 1110 111100 1100100 1010110 0111 110111 101001 110001 011101 100101 011111 111101 101010 1001110 1111110 1011110 10001 010101 1010001 010011 010001 011111 010100 110110 101010 110100 110101 100010 111111 10111 101001 110100 110111 111100 011101 110111 111101 110001 0010101 010101 110011 011101 111100 01100 100101 0011001 100101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Roads;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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