This is an analysis of the poem On A Path One Has Cleared Of Thorns that begins with:
Desiring a life to accomplish what one wishes,
Is a challenge against those odds......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC Xdaaad ceeXaeaAXAABCA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01000100101110 00100111 110010 0110110 10001001010101 0101011100 11001110110101 1101100101 111001 0100001111011 110101111100 0100101 01111011000 1011100010 0110101011 1010011010 0101010 10111101 01000100101110 00100111 110010 0110110 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thorns at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of On A Path One Has Cleared Of Thorns;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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