This is an analysis of the poem The Walk that begins with:
You did not walk with me
Of late to the hill-top tree... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aaddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 0100111 101001 10101 10111 11101 1110111011 110011101 111101 100101 0101 00101 11101 11001 10110101 00100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; you, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Walk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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