This is an analysis of the poem Wrong Road Taken that begins with:
The moment you began to assess,
Where I lived and how I dressed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbdX XXXcece baXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101001 1111111 11101 010101010 1110001 1110101110 00010101110 1111100101 10100011 11101001011 01110110101 11101101 10100101010100 0011011111 111 111010101 00101101010100 11010001111100 0100001101101 100010100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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