This is an analysis of the poem The Dark Way that begins with:
Rougher than Death the road I choose
Yet shall my feet not walk astray,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gfgf hehe cdcd iXiX jeje kbkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110111 11111101 11111111 10100101 11010001 11011101 01111101 01110101 11111101 11010101 11010101 01110100 111101110 0100101001 100100110 01010101 11110111 010101010 01110101 111101010 11111101 0100001001 10010011 01000101 111101001 10010100 11011011 10010100 11110001 010010101 11010111 01111101 11111111 11110101 11111101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; way, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Dark Way;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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