This is an analysis of the poem The Path that begins with:
RUNNING along a bank, a parapet
That saves from the precipitous wood below ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcdefdghdhgcfebgXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 11000100101 0101100101 1011010111 0101011101 010110111110 10010011111 1001110101 0110110101 101100101101 11010111001 01101100101 01010111001 11110000101 00100111101 101010011101 0101011101 1101011101 1100010111 10011011010 1101111101 11110011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1006
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Path;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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