This is an analysis of the poem The Lonely Road that begins with:
The Lonely Road
So long had I travelled the lonely road, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa bXbbX cdccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101 1111100101 1110101001 11001011001 11011011111 11101001001 1010110111 1110001011001 11110111011 01011011001 1100101110 010111011 11101001010 0101110101 00101110111 11011110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines road is repeated).
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