This is an analysis of the poem The Journey that begins with:
The morning sea of silence broke into ripples of bird songs;
and the flowers were all merry by the roadside; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbdd bedcX eeba aaXad fef gfbhaXahgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,4,5,3,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010010011 101001101011 10101110101001 1110011111111 1111111 1110010110 1110111 1101101 1101111110111 0110011111001 101111001101 01011011001100101 1111111010 111101101 101011101 111111101 11011110 110001011 11101111 111110110 11001010100010001 1001011101 1110101 1111111 00100101010 001100101 00100101011 1011011 101111110 11010110110 00101111 11111011011011 11110111011011 1111101111100 101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, we, not, in, they, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we, they, in are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Journey;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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