This is an analysis of the poem On Paths With Cracks that begins with:
Few I knew,
Were catered to and pampered....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcbc ACcc Dedde DbXc ACDABX ebXeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 0100110 111110 010111 010101 111 1010 01011010 1010000100 1101 001001 11110 101 111 1101 01101 1110 10111011 111 1010 1101 111 0100110 1101 101011 00111 111010101 1100111001 1111 0100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same words few, on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of On Paths With Cracks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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