This is an analysis of the poem A Plagued Journey that begins with:
There is no warning rattle at the door
nor heavy feet to stomp the foyer boards. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefXghgegbiiafcbhdcgXjcXh bXjfedXgXbjXXeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010101 1101010101 100110111 1110 01010010 100101 1010 1010011010 1101 0101011 1100101 0101 110101 001110100 01110 1010001 110101 01111 0001100 1101 010010 11100010 001100001 01011100100 0101010001 111 11110 10111101 110110 110101001 1010011 10111101 00010001 11111000010 1010000 1101 101000 01111110 1010101 1001110 10111 101000 101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of A Plagued Journey;
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