This is an analysis of the poem The Long Road West that begins with:
Once I heard a Hobo, singing by the tie-trail,
Squatting by the red rail rusty with the dew:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccXdedefcfXegeghchXcacahchX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101011 10101110001 1000100100011 10001010111 11111101110 101111111101 11110101010 10101010111 101010101011 10001110101 111010101011 101001011111 111111111111 10011010001 1110111101011 10101010111 101011101011 10101110101 111110101011 10101000111 11111001010 10101010101 111111101010 10101010111 101011101011 10001110101 111011100011 10001010101 101111101110 10101110101 10110011101010 10101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1575
- Average number of words per stanza: 293
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; singing, and, your, to, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word singing is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sings connects the lines.
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