This is an analysis of the poem Too Long On The Wrong Road that begins with:
Searching I had been,
Too long on the wrong road....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXabcXd Xaabc dcBcceb fgeXbbXg Bfa XgXXgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,7,8,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 111011 10110 1010001 1011 0110110 100010 11001 111 10101110 1111 110010 10111001 111001010 10 111011 10110111 10101011 10111 11001101 1111010 11101 100101 11011101 0010 110010101 1110100 0111 111011 100 110 1 11 11111 11 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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- summary of Too Long On The Wrong Road;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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