This is an analysis of the poem Out Of Mind Travels that begins with:
If one chooses to venture into the woods,
Without a guide and alone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbcb dXcXXcecXdc eaFGE FGE FGEXEG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,5,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100100001 0101101 010111 0101001101 01111 11001 0101 11 00100010010 110011001 0010000 01011101 11001 00101111 100010101101 000101011100 1 01011101 110011001 110110101 11 00100111 0011101 11 00100111 0011101 11 00100111 0011101 0011101 00100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stay is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word stay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Out Of Mind Travels;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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