This is an analysis of the poem The Turn Of The Road that begins with:
WHERE confident, calm I strode,
I walk with hesitant feet;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcdcdeeeeFGfghfhfbibijejecccccacakbkbdcdcFGfgkBXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 1101001 11101001 1111 0100111 1111101 1110111 1111 11100101 1110111 10110111 1101 10110101 0011111 0100100 0111 10100101 1101101 1100111 10111 0101101 11111001 10101001 1111 001011010 0101011 1010010010 1111 1011111 10100101 1100101 0111 01001011 10101111 1010111 1101 1101111 11010101 1111111 1111 1100101 0100101 10100111 1101 10110101 0011111 0100100 0111 010100111 1101001 11100110 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1508
- Average number of words per stanza: 300
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, new are repeated.
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