This is an analysis of the poem Bumpy Rocky Roads that begins with:
Young people fed that life is easy,
To live it as they please......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc DEDFAg cbaeb AHABb AHABb DEDFAg AHAXXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,5,5,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 010111 1011 110010101 1110111 1101 1110111 101001 1110100 111110011 101101111 011 01001110 10111001 010010111101 10101 0101010 110101 1011101 1010001 10101 0101010 110101 1011101 1001101 1110111 1101 1110111 101001 1110100 1110100101001 10101 0101010 110101 0111 101011111 101101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word speed is repeated.
The author used the same word bumpy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word face at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Bumpy Rocky Roads;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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