This is an analysis of the poem `through Pleasant Paths' that begins with:
Through pleasant paths, through dainty ways,
Love leads my feet; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaabab acacaaacac bdbdbbbdbd cececccece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1111 11010101 1101 01011101 11111111 11000101 1111 10010111 1111 11110101 1001 11010111 1111 01111101 01010101 11011101 1101 11110101 1101 01110001 111 01010101 1111 11011111 110100001 10110101 1000 10010101 1101 01011111 1101 10011111 1111 11110111 11110101 10011101 1101 01010001 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, all 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 `through Pleasant Paths';
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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