This is an analysis of the poem The Path To The Woods that begins with:
ITS friendship and its carelessness
Did lead me many a mile,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX adadXaXd efefghgh dbXbihih dcdcdddd jdjdkhkh hihXjdid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010100 0111001 11100101 111111 11000101 110011 11000101 111100 01100100 111101 01110101 1101101 01010101 111100 011101111 1100111 01100111 1101010 100101001 01011010 10010101 011101 01010101 0110001 01100101 001111 10010100 1101101 11011111 100101 11011101 010101 01101101 0100111 01010111 011101 01110101 010111 010100101 110101 01110100 111001 01100100 1101101 01100111 110101 110010001 0100111 01111111 010101 00011111 010101 01010100 100111 01011100 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; its, and, of, with, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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