This is an analysis of the poem The Long, Lone Road that begins with:
YOU that had the soft path
And the lights, brightly glowing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaabXaXcacaabaaXXaXAabaaXXacAdbddXXabAcbcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1011010 1101011111101 1111010 10101010 1010101 101011100 1011010 011011111111 111011 10101010 11101111110101 11101010 11101110 101111 10111010 10111010 011011111111 111011 001110 01101010110101 1011010 11101010 101111 100101010 10101010 1011011111111 111011 101010010 10101011110111 1011010 11111111 11111 101001111 11101111 1011011111111 111011 10101010 01101111110101 1011010 10101110 101111 11111010 11101000 1011011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1699
- Average number of words per stanza: 337
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, call are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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