This is an analysis of the poem Tramping that begins with:
Oh ! it's good to be alive, man.
Good to take the road and tramp.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cded dfXf XdddXeaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10000011 0010111 10101011 1011111 10101010 1010111 10101110 1010101 11101011 1010111 10101111 1010111 10101110 1010001 10101011 1010001 11101010 0010111 11101111 0111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Tramping;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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