This is an analysis of the poem Told By that begins with:
Coming, clean from the Maryland-end
Of this great National Road of ours,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacabdcdcdcccceeff geggdhXehieXgjaaajggffiaagfkfkcllmmccee kkfigdggfdnfnbfbdfdfaacaccaacb XX bffgeo ffebddehbeh XgkXikXX glgdahdha fefX edldeldcedecneo eanaXppnXXX nacaeXcaXaXXea ddcXXadaddgijabbjaddffdbbddaananndada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,39,30,2,6,11,8,9,4,15,11,14,37,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101001001 001100101 111100101 101100111 100100101 1111101110 111111111 11000111 1011101101 0101010111 0111100101 101100111 110001101 10100111 110101111 10010101 001010111 010100011 00110111000 100100111 1000111110 11010111 10101101 10110101 0101101001 010101110 101111111 11011101 101101100 1111001001 101111001 1100100101 1001101001 101011111 10100110101 1011111011 11111111 101011011 1101101011 11110101 10010101 110110100 0010110101 01011101 110111011 111010001 010101111 11000111 10100101 1010111111 1111101 10110101 011100011 110101101 101101001 101110111 110101101 111101101 101101101 010101111 11101001 1100111100 10101101 10100101 1111111 0010110101 10000101 10100111 011110111 1010110111 111100111 0011101101 110100101 101010101 001010101 111011101 000111011 1001011011 1010101001 110100101 1011100111 010010101 10010111 100101101 110111101 101010111 11111101001 110100111 11101101 1011101 10111111 010101101 101100101 10101100100 10010111 1101 10111 10101101001 110101111 101110111 111111101 101110101 0011100101 011100101 011111001 11111101 11010101 11111101010 1110111 101 0101 101001110 1001 0101 111 110101101 010011100 10110101 10100101 110110111 000101111 1010110101 0110111111 011100101 101011101 110100001 10010111 11100111 10011111 011100111 10111011 01011011 10010110 00100101101 11101111 1011110101 100110111 001011101 10100111 10010101 1001101001 11110111 010111 11 1011111 010101101 101100101 1100111001 010011101 10101111 110100101 1110100101 11001001001 01111 101 010110101 01001111 00100101 100111001 11110100 11010101 010010111 110011110 11111101 111010111 111111101 110111101 101011111 110001101 1111101101 010010101 11010001 11110111 11111111 01001101 01010101 001111101 101100111 01110100 01110101 101000111 10011111 10110111 110010101 010110111 1100111111 1100001001 11011101 011110111 011100101 011100111 11011111 10011111 110110100 10011101 11111111 11000011 111110111 100110101 11010111 100100100 110011111 011100101 011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 549
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 204
- 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; to, and, her, old, black, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, with, his, of, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Told By;
- central theme;
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