This is an analysis of the poem On And On that begins with:
By long leagues of wood and meadow
On and on we drive apace; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fdfd gXgX dhdh icic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 1111101 00101111 1010101 101110101 11100011 10111011 1000100 11111010 1010101 10101010 1010111 11111110 00101010 11001010 101010010 111110010 10001010 10101010 1010111 11101110 1110101 11101110 1011101 111111101 1011101 11101011 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, on are repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of On And On;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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