This is an analysis of the poem A Country Pathway that begins with:
I come upon it suddenly, alone--
A little pathway winding in the weeds... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede bbfb fXfc dgdg hbhb hbhb didi idid ifif jgjX fhbh kfkf lblb XbXb didi bebe jiji amam Xnbn cmcm fifi ibib aeaeXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 0101110001 1101110111 110101 1100010101 1101010111 1101111101 0100101 0101010101 0101111111 0101010101 101011 0101010111 1101010101 1101110101 110101 0111010111 0101011100 1001010101 1101001 1101111111 1001011111 11100101001 011101 1111011111 1101010001 1111011101 010101 0101111101 1001111101 1111110001 010101 1101011101 1011001001 1111110110 011001 0101111101 1001011101 1101010101 010101 0101111101 1101010101 1101111111 111101 1101101101 10110100111 1111110111 110011 1111010101 0101011101 1111000101 010011 1001110101 0101000101 0101010001 010111 0110010101 0101001101 1111010111 110011 1011010101 1100110111 11010100110 111111 11011100101 0101010111 01011010101 100101 1101010111 0101110101 0111110101 110101 1101010001 0111010101 1100010101 011101 1101011101 0101110001 0101110101 0100111 01000101100 0111010001 1101010111 010011 0101011101 1101010101 0011110011 100101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 100101 1111111001 1111111101 1101010101 011101 1101111101 1011011101 0101010101 110101 1101010111 0101011111 0111010100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same words or, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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