This is an analysis of the poem Understanding That Path I Walk On that begins with:
You wish to tie me down,
To a host of your excuses lived....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXbcXXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 001010101 11010110100 10110111 10110011 0011011100 111101010 10111010 0101101111 01101011111 1111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 Understanding That Path I Walk On;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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