This is an analysis of the poem Walking that begins with:
To walk abroad is, not with eyes,
But thoughts, the fields to see and prize;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeeee ccfccf ggebbe eeXhhX aaacca aaijji aabbbb kkacca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010111 110101 1101 11111110 111101 11111111 11011101 010101 1101 100111001 110101 11111111 11011101 010111 1111 1111110 110111 01010101 01010011 010011 0101 01010111 111110 01010001 11010101 011101 0011 01110101 010011 01011101 01010101 010111 1101 01010111 111111 011111001 010111101 01001 0101 010011001 110101 01011101 110001111 111101 1101 10111101 011101 10110111 11111111 111101 1001 10011101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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