This is an analysis of the poem The Year’s Progress that begins with:
I look along the dusty dreary way,
So lately strew'd with blossoms fresh and gay,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc cbcbddeeaa aabb ffddggXXff hhiijjXbbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,4,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 11010010111 0101000101 11010111001 1101010100 1111010001 11010100001 1011001101 1101011101 1101010001 0111010101 0111010001 1001110100 1011110101 1101010001 11010011101 1011010101 10011000111 0101011101 1101010101 10110001001 1011010111 0111110101 10010101101 1101010001 10111101101 101101001010 10010010101 10110001101 1100110101 1001010111 1101010101 1001010111 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1011010111 100110101001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Year’s Progress;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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