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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