This is an analysis of the poem The Corduroy Road that begins with:

De corduroy road go bompety bomp,
De corduroy road go jompety jomp,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa bcXdXX bedbfab bgXeXbe dhhigh dXXXaj fXXifXi kfXhiX dkiilXX fXmff lnbXnb nmdXfd hlgXoX XpingX cmioli dbdab dfllkel mXllpi enXiklXX hofhmXeX XhdhoXfX ljehXgch
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,7,6,6,7,6,7,5,6,6,6,6,6,5,7,6,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101111001 0101111001 111100100111 01111101011 0101011010 101 111010111100 1100101110 10110 11001111010 1111100010110 1 1011111010 10 10101011011 11 101010101110 1111111010010 01 1110111011 10 1110101111 10010 111000111010 11111011011 1011 101010111110 11111110110 111 101010111010 1010010101010 1 0101001100 1111111111 10101 00111011101 10101011101 10 11101010101 0 01100110111 10 111010001010 100110111101 11 111001101010 110101010101 11110101110 10 11111110101 11 111011011010 0101110110 101 010101111 10 110011110001 101010101110 1111011010010 1101010111 1 11110111 10011 11011110110 11101111100 1 101111101010 10011111011 111 101111101011 1111101110 111 111010111011 10110010111 01 10100110111 1 1111011101101 1011101110110 11111001111 110 11011101010 1110111101 1011 11001101010 11010111111 01 11101111110 10101011110 101 101111101110 1010101011101 111010101110 001101111110 1 11011011010 101110111101 01 1001010110101 111111111 11111 10110010111 00 111011110110 111110101010 10111110101 11 10101111000 10 111010111011 1 1111101011 10 11111110 10001 11111011101 1 10110111110 001 11011110011 1010 11101011111 101 11010101111 1010 11100101110 101 010111011010 10 1110111101 1101 1101011111 10010 11011111100 11 11111011111 1010 10111011011 101 100101100111 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; de, road, corduroy, you, an', on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, an' are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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