This is an analysis of the poem The Coast-Road that begins with:

A horseman high alone as an eagle on the spur of the mountain
over Mirmas Canyon draws rein, looks down...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdef XaddccXbXcfeedfeaXXc fXdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,20,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111101010010 1010101111 101101101010010 10011110101 11010011101001 100011101001 110111010010010 111110 11 01101011110100101 0101010001 1101010011000011 01101101 01011010011101010 1001010101 0110101001011010010 11100100010 101011101101010101 10101110 1101111010100010001 00100011 1111100110101101 01101010110 010111101010100 1011101 1011111100001010100 11111 10100110011010 101 10101000101 01100010101111 100101011000 101110100111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 537
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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 are repeated.

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  • summary of The Coast-Road;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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