This is an analysis of the poem The Road To Roma Jail that begins with:
It's a long road, a cruel road, the road to Roma Jail,
birds in all the branches mocking as you pass,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXa cddcc abbaa aeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00110101010101 10101010111 01010101010111 101110010101 10110101010101 100011010101 10101010101 100010111101 101010110111 11110111101 10111111101 10101111101 11101010101 111011010101 11110110101 00110101010101 0101011010101 1111111111101 11011001010111 10110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; road, your are repeated.
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