This is an analysis of the poem The Stable Path that begins with:
The last red rose on the arch has faded,
The border has mourned for its last white flower; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaXaXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101110 01011101110 0101101110 0101011010 1101011110 100110101 1101101110 101110101 010010110010 11101011010 0111100100010 01001001001 111011111110 01011111001 110010011010 11001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 756
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; has is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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