This is an analysis of the poem The River And The Road that begins with:

THE merrymaking's over
The riverside is still,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcdcefefgcgcahahahahacacdhdXhihiejejkXXXkXXXacacdldl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100010 010101 01010010 110101 0111100 010101 0101110 110101 110110 111111 1101010 111101 0101010 011001 1111011 110101 1101010 110101 1101110 010101 0101100 110101 0111110 111101 1111010 110001 0101010 101001 1101010 111111 0111110 110110 1111010 010111 0101110 011111 1101110 011101 1101010 110001 1101010 110111 1101111 110110 0111010 111111 1101010 1100110 0111110 010111 1011010 111101 1101010 110101 1111010 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1530
  • Average number of words per stanza: 304
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, hurry are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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

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