This is an analysis of the poem The Road that begins with:
When the long road ahead is dark with careering
Shapes of evil, and a fiend walks at the side...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cdcX Xded fggf ffffXfeef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101010010 10101011101 00101010111 10110 11011001001 11010011011001 111011111011 1111 1101001011000 101000011111 100111101101 111 11110101101 10110011100100 0010011100101 0101 11111111100 1100010111001 11110111101 1101 0111110111 101101110101 0101110111 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Road;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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