This is an analysis of the poem Love Will Find Out The Way that begins with:

Over the mountains
And over the waves,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbC dcdceceC fbfbXceC fgfgfcfc XbXbecec fXfXhchC XbXbfcfC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010 11001 10010 11001 1011110 11001 1011110 101101 11011 101101 11011 101001 1011110 101111 0111010 101101 11011 01101 11111 010101 10111110 001001 10101010 101101 11011 110101 111011 11001 10111111 101111 1101111 101101 111010 01011 11110 010001 0101110 011001 1111010 101101 0010111 1110010 00111001 111001 10101010 10101 1011010 101101 10110 01001 101100 01001 10101011 101111 0111111 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, ye are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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