This is an analysis of The Way by Alice Duer Miller.
THERE is a magic pathway through the wood,
There is a current in the troubled stream,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBAB acac dedeXaBAB
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
- Metre: 1001011101 1001000101 0101010111 010001 1101110101 0101011111 1101010001 0101 1111110001 1111110101 0111000101 1101 1001011101 1001000101 0101010111 010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
some, nor, no
Anaphora
there, a
