This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Xlviii: I Travelled The Old Road that begins with:
I travelled the old road every day, I took my fruits to the market,
my cattle to the meadows, I ferried my boat across the stream and...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXXXXaXXbbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 110011100111110010 11000111101101011 10101101 1101101100110100 01010100100101 100101001 1001101000110110 11111011101101010 1 1010100111011000 1110101011011010 1110101 110110101110100101 0101011011111111 1011101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 811
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, to, of are repeated.
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