This is an analysis of the poem The Grey Road that begins with:
A sun-flash on his mounting wing,
A wild note soaring high—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacddCcacaXdeed fgfgachhc ddddXcddC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 011101 01010101 010001 010101101 110101 1101 1111 110111 11010101 010101 11110111 0101001 11111101 110101 1101 1111 011101 11010101 110111 01110101 010101 01011001 111101 0111 1101 011101 110101101 111101 01010101 011101 11110101 110101 1101 1101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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