This is an analysis of the poem On The Road that begins with:
On the road of my travels,
Many obstacles I have come to face....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcEeebc Xfcggbeea eEbegfeXdabeeebc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 1010011101 11011001 01 110101 0110 1001001110 1100101 11010 01000110101 0101111 0101 01101 111010 01011010 0101001011 10101 0101010 001011011 110101 0110 1110100101 111101 001001010 1011101 101101 10111 101100 101111 1011101 1010010 11101 11010010 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of On The Road;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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