This is an analysis of the poem Road To School, The that begins with:
A meadow greenly carpeted:
A strip of woodland, brown and cool, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede afaf gbgb hhXh fifi caXa fjfj hjhjaaaX keke jljl jjjj ibib cacaXjjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110100 01011111 110100111 100101 01011111 01010101 01010111 110101 01011111 010010101 11010111 011111 11010101 11010001 11010111 110111 11011101 10110111 11010101 110101 110010101 11010101 11010100 010101 11000101 10111111 11110111 111100 11110111 01001101 110100100 1101001 010011101 11010001 10010001 110101 110010111 11010011 01111101 1011101 110010101 01010101 00110101 1101100 11110111 0111010111 01010111 111111 111100101 010101001 11010101 111100 11101101 11111101 11010111 111111 11111111 10010011 01110111 111101 10110101 11111101 11010111 010101 11111111 1110111 111001101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, with, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, we, life, and, for are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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