This is an analysis of the poem The Rolling English Road that begins with:
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa bXaacc ddeebb ffXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101110101 01010101010101 01010101110101 11010101010101 01010101111101 01110101110101 11110101110001 11010101011010 11011100011101 01010101110101 11111101011011 011101000110101 01100101111101 01110101100001 01110101111111 101110111111001 11011101101111 01110100110101 11101101111101 11010011000101 11010111011100 111000101010101 11001101111001 01110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rolling, road, of, and, him, we, to are repeated.
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