This is an analysis of the poem Dream Road that begins with:
I took the road again last night
On which my boyhood's hills look down;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaba cddcXc ceeXec fccfcX gccgcg cbbcbc hgghgh ijjiji khhkhk XjcXcg gbbgbg gllglg XXjjjj ceecec gccgcg gffgfg kmdkmkXgggggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 11110111 01110001 01010101 01011101 100101 01110111 01010111 10011101 11011101 11101010 0101111 110011111 110001101 10000111 01111000 01110111 0111011 11111101 11111100 01010111 11111101 11111111 1101010 11110101 11010101 10111101 11110001 11110011 111101 11010100 11011111 101101001 11010100 11010101 111111 01011111 11011101 11011101 110010111 10011111 100101 10011111 01010101 110011101 10011101 010111001 0111001 11010111 11010111 110101101 01110001 11010111 110101 11111110 01111101 11011111 010001010 11000101 1100111 01010101 11000101 11010101 01011101 11110101 110101 11110111 01110111 11010101 11110101 11011001 010101 11011011 01010100 11110101 11011111 11010111 010111 01010111 01111101 10110001 11010101 11111101 010111 01010101 11001101 010110101 11011101 01010111 010111 01110101 11110101 10010111 11010111 01011111 010111 11010101 11011100 11110110 01111111 01100100 0100111 11001101 01111111 11011101 10010111 10010111 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, or, her are repeated.
The author used the same words and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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