This is an analysis of the poem The Right Road that begins with:
Let the feeble-hearted pine,
Let the sickly spirit whine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcXcb dddeccce dddfgggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010101 111101 111 110101 1111100 1010111 001 0011111 1110101 1011101 101 1110101 1110111 1001111 101 1010101 1111101 1110001 111 1111101 1110101 1100111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thus is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, thus are repeated.
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- summary of The Right Road;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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