This is an analysis of the poem A Little Road Not Made Man that begins with:
A little road not made of man,
Enabled of the eye,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 010001 01000101 110101 01010101 1011101 11011100 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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 is repeated.
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