This is an analysis of the poem The Braemar Road that begins with:

The road that leads to Braemar winds ever in and out.
It wanders here and dawdles there, and trips and turns about...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbbcccdddeeebbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010110011 01011101111101 10101110111101 10111010010101 110111001100001 00101010110101 11101010110101 11110010100101 0100001111101 1101110011111 11011101010101 110010111010101 0101010110111 11001010010101 101000101011101 101110101110011 11110100010101 01110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1053
  • Average number of words per stanza: 194
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, that are repeated.

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  • summary of The Braemar Road;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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