This is an analysis of the poem The Road Menders that begins with:
How solitary gleams the lamplit street
Waiting the far--off morn!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdaeefffced fafXgcXbccXagba gdghdhggaabibibcbcffe jeXccXjkXXkbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,15,21,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010101 100111 11000100101 0101 100101 1100110101 1101011100 0101010111 110101 0101010001 0011011101 1101 100101 1011100101 11001101001 010011 01001010101 100110 01010010011 1000011001 1001100100 0111010101 0111011101 0101010101 1101110100 1101111101 0111110111 0111100101 011111 1111011001 1101110101 1111100101 100101 1111001 1001010101 111111 11010111 11011100101 10010101 0101110101 1011000101 10001010110 010111 1101110101 110101 011011 00101 1010010101 1101100111 11100011101 0111110011 1100111011 1100100100110 11010101 1101 100111010100 1010011101 1101000100 0100001011001 01001101100 011101001000 110011 010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; his, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Road Menders;
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