This is an analysis of the poem With A Kicking To The Curb that begins with:
Although my journey...
Has seemed sometimes long, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcdeXfabc DcDcdaedGhhGh hIfIchX ccbXhbXhefbfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 11011 00010010001 111001001001 111010010100100 010001111111 1101101010 011111111 01111101111 111001101 00100010 1100101001 110101010111 1101110 110101010111 1110111 100111 0010001110 1 10101010111 001000100 1010101001111 100011010001 001000100 110100001 1001001 00001000111 11101001110 00001000111 00101011011 011001 0101010111 00011010 0010011010 11100111 11110 01010001 0100010 001101101 11111111100 1 001000111000001 10110011001 1001001 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, on, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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.
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