This is an analysis of the poem On This Same Path Alone that begins with:
For many years I have walked by myself,
On this same path alone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb bcXX acdde Xedcb XfbfXgXfgbbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111111 101101 10111 1111100101 101101001111 110101101 01010110 111001 10010110101 111111101 1100111111 011010100 1111110101 11100111 01011111101 1101 111110 1101 11101 10111111110 11011010 10111010 11110 101111101 11111110110 101001 10110101 1111101101010 11111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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