Analysis of The road not owned
Lily Mae 2011 (Missouri)
Two roads lie in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Scheme | ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GXGGX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11100101 010111101 011100111 011111111 11110010 110101111 010010101 0111100101 11110101 111100101 011101001 01111101 1110110101 110111111 1101111011 111101101 1100101 110100101 11011101 011110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 726 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Written on August 31, 2022
Submitted by lily.mathews0902 on August 31, 2022
Modified on March 08, 2023
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