This is an analysis of the poem A Traveller that begins with:
This road takes me; a horse guiding a horseman
A traveler like me cannot look back...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCdeaedfddEXdddXgdCgfdfXehXfEihihhhgib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110110010 0100111011 11110101 11001 101010 011000010 01010010 101011 0010010 011101110 0101001111 1111110110 1010111 111110010 1101111 101010110 010110010 00100011 0111101010 11110101 1101 11001 00111011001 0101010 101101 1010111010 101001 011101 110011001 1111110110 1011111101 1101111101 11011 1101 11101010001 111111 10010 010011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1210
- Average number of words per stanza: 235
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of A Traveller;
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