This is an analysis of The Way by Amy Lowell.

At first a mere thread of a footpath half blotted out by the grasses
Sweeping triumphant across it, it wound between hedges of roses…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabc adadbbX XacbdebbbaXXe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,7,13,
  • Metre: 11011001111011010 10010010010110010 11001011111011010 110110011011010010 0100110101010010010 111011010111010111 111011010010010010 101001011010110010 11011010100111010010 011011010110011010 11001101011001001000 1001011001101001 11001011001010011010 0110110010010110010 11101001001011010 11110111010010010 110110010110110011 011110011011011110 11001001110010010 1110010010010110010 111101011010111110 01001010001010011 110010011111010010 01001011110010011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

of, and, him, to

Anaphora

and