This is an analysis of the poem To James Whitcomb Riley that begins with:

Your trail runs to the westward,
And mine to my own place;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCb cded cfgf ddgd XXga ABCb Xece
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010 110111 101001110 1111111 11111110 1100101 010010010 1010111 1001010 001101 1101010 1000101 1011110 101111 11111010 0100111 10111110 10110110 1010010 110101 1110010 110111 101001110 1110111 1101110 11001011 101111001 11101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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