This is an analysis of the poem On The Way To Kew that begins with:

On the way to Kew,
By the river old and gray,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABaabaccDa BaaAbaccDa aaBbaaeeDA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 1010111 100101 1111001 110101 011101 010101 1101001 101010 11101 1010111 0010101 101101 10101 110101 011101 110101 101111 101010 11101 0010101 11101 1010111 1000101 11111 10001 101101 1111101 101010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; ghost, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • summary of On The Way To Kew;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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