This is an analysis of the poem Wanderlust that begins with:
THE highways and the byways, the kind sky folding all,
And never a care to drag me back and never a voice to call;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111011011101 1100101111100101 1001001110010101 01110110110101 11001010100100111 100111111011111 0111011011111 11001110100110111 1101001110010111 01110110111111 11001010110100111 1001101011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, seas, to, breeze, that, never, trail 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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- summary of Wanderlust;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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