This is an analysis of the poem There Was One I Met Upon The Road that begins with:
There was one I met upon the road
Who looked at me with kind eyes. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaXXCXCXaXXXXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 1111011 1110101100 1010 1011 11100010 1111010 11100010 1111010 11100010 11001 1111100010 1100111 10111100 101111 0101 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 512
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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