This is an analysis of the poem The Road Back that begins with:
Come, walk with me and Memory;
And let us see what we shall see:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddaaaaeeffaaggeeggeeaaddhhiiaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 11111111 01110111 10010111 11110101 11010101 010110101 1011101101 01111111 001011000101 1100110101 0011101111 110011101 011100111 010110111 110011111 011100111 1111111101 111101111 101110110 111101111 0011101101 1100101111 110100101 0111101101 00111000101 11111100101 010101101 111101110 101110111 110111001 1010100101 010111111 111100101 110110111 010101111 11111011001 0101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1567
- Average number of words per stanza: 299
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, he, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, who are repeated.
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- summary of The Road Back;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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