This is an analysis of the poem The Lone Trail that begins with:
Ye who know the Lone Trail fain would follow it,
Though it lead to glory or the darkness of the pit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeeXXffeeeebXeeddd ccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,21,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101111100 1010101010001 11101111101 01101110111 010010101100101 11101001011110101 11110011101001011 1111010111011111 11111001100110101 1110100111111101 10101001010111001 1110100010100101 101010010001001110 11111001001010010 10101001100110101 111011001011101101 10101001110101011 1111011011111111 101010010100100101 11111101011011100 101010110110111111 11100101011111111 10010011110101 10101101101101011 1111010011101001111 10101110101 01101110001 10111110001 100011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 647
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lone, trail, and, you, of, to, your, it, leads, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, by are repeated.
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- summary of The Lone Trail;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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