This is an analysis of the poem Crossroads that begins with:
The second half of my life will be black
to the white rind of the old and fading moon. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXXXXcdXeb fbddcffdgf eadbXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101011001 00110011101 01010110010 1001101100 10111101 1011110011 11110110 01011110 1101011 101011101001 1110001100 110111100 010001011010 0101011001 11010001010 11100100101 01010110011 1010111 111111001 100111001 10101001 10111010001 111100001 0101011001 10110101 100101 11010 1110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, my 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 Crossroads;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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