This is an analysis of the poem Road And Hills that begins with:

I shall go away
To the brown hills, the quiet ones, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd defbghibjkkbci kgX babbl XiXebkibXhfbkk XkifXXl bjXek XieeeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,3,5,14,7,5,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 00110101 010100010 110110 1111000 1011 1100010101101 01110 1001 10101 1 0101 0101000 10111 10100110 01010 101010 11110 0111111 110 00011 111010111 0101001011011 01000010 11010 01111 011 0111111 111011001 11101010010 11010010 01001100110 0110 0101010 1010010 01011010 1010101 1101 010111010101111 100101 0110110 11100111 11110101000111 110101 111011 0101001101101100 010001 111111011011 110011011011000111 0010100010 011001010 11010101 10 01110001 10011 1001 11011 10011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • 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, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, seeking are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spaces, end are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word end at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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