This is an analysis of the poem Only One Way that begins with:
There is only one way,
To get along with truth....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD cXef ABccghdhhhX hXgaX ceghbdadadfdh ABCDdXgfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,11,5,13,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 010101 1100010 1100 11010010 10101 00101010011 11 101011 010101 110010 0111010 10101000010 1111 101010010 00100 1010010110 1101001 0001010100 1001 10110100 1010110101 0010101 000101 11001011100 00100101101 11010 01000010100 11 1111000010 10101101 01010001 0100001111 11011111 010100 111110001 00101101 101011 010101 1100010 1100 10010101 01010010 1101001 101011 101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word many is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase truth connects the lines.
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