This is an analysis of the poem Upon Returning To The Country Road that begins with:

Even the shrewd and bitter,
Gnarled by the old world's greed, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdedeXbdbfgXgfbXbcfaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110 110111 1001010 100101 1011010 101101 00101010 10111011 0111011000 1100100 1110110 010101 01001010 0111101 11101011 100111 01001010 110111 1101010 110101 1001010 0100101 1101010 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 759
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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.

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