This is an analysis of the poem The Cross Roads that begins with:
There was an old man breaking stones
To mend the turnpike way,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcCb dbeeB ffgXf fahha iBCcj adddd klddl Xmggm mKddK cnmmn idhhd Opllp Opddp agggg algfl lbllb ldbbd fgddg kqggq bfhhf qmbbm kmffm ddbjd odeed ggggg gfddfXdKddK
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 010111 11110101 11011111 110111 11010101 010111 110101010 110101010 111111 01000111 11001001 011111110 100111100 110101 111011011 111111 11011111 10010111 1111010 01010111 111111 11011111 11110101 010100 11010101 110111 11010101 11110111 110111 010100110 0110010 10110111 01110111 1111010 01111111 000111 10110111 1101011 110101 10111101 010101 01010101 010100001 1010101 01011111 111111 11110101 11110001 111101 11010101 110111 01111111 11000111 111111 111101110 111111 00111101 11110100 110101 111101110 111101 11110101 11110111 110111 11110101 010111 11010111 11110101 011101 11100111 110101 11010101 111010101 1110001 11010101 10110101 11011101 11010011 1110101 11101101 111001 01011101 11110101 110001 01110101 1110111 11011101 10110111 1010111 01110101 110011 11110111 01110111 0110100 11111101 010101 01010111 01011101 110101 01111100 110111 11111111 11011111 011101 00010101 111101 1110100101 110110101 1101101 11010101 10100101 11011111 11110100 0011001 01011100 0011111 11110101 11010001 11100101 11000101 0010111 11011101 01100111 010101 11111101 110011 110111001 101011111 1110101 11011111 010101 01010111 010100001 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 135
- 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, he, it, have, bad, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she, her are repeated.
The author used the same words i, there's, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word grave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Cross Roads;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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