This is an analysis of the poem On The Road that begins with:
LET us bid the world good-by,
Now while sun and cloud's above us,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdXdeffgegehhijijcckekeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11111011 1110001 10111011 1110111 1011111 1111101 10101110 1010111 11110110 1111111 1110111 1110111 10101010 1110101 01111010 1011111 0011101 1010101 00101110 0110101 00111010 1111001 0011011 1010101 11111110 1011101 10111010 1111111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 960
- Average number of words per stanza: 193
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; us, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
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- summary of On The Road;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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