This is an analysis of the poem The Mountain Road that begins with:
COMING down the mountain road
Light of heart and all alone, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede eaeaXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 110100111 010001 11111010 1010111 00101010 10101 1010111 1110101 0010101 10101 1110101 10100111 1011001 10111 11110101 1010101 1010101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Mountain Road;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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