This is an analysis of the poem The Path By The Creek that begins with:
There is a path that leads
Through purple iron-weeds,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbcdd eebfbfXX ggededhh iiafXfee jjXabaii ddaklkmm jXllllgg aanhnhnn eeofofkk eejpjpjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 110101 1101110 0101 0111110 1111 110101 111101 011101 111001 1101010 0101 0101010 1101 110101 100111 0100101 01111 1101110 1111 0101010 1001 110111 100101 101101 011111 0111010 0101 1101010 1001 010101 110101 110111 100101 1111011 01001 1101010 11001 100111 1100111 100101 011101 1101010 1001 0110010 1101 110101 1101011 110101 110100 1101010 1111 10011010 0101 101101 110101 110101 111101 1101010 1001 0101010 0101 110111 100101 111101 111101 1011110 1111 1011010 1101 110111 111111 100110 1010101 1101110 0111 1001110 0101 010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, a are repeated.
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- summary of The Path By The Creek;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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