This is an analysis of the poem The Quest Eternal that begins with:
O west of all that a man holds dear, on the edge of the Kingdom Come,
Where carriage is far too high for beer, and the pubs keep only rum, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd ccbX ddee fXcc eeaXbXXffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011011110100101 1100111111011101 1010100101101001001 1110010010110111001 1110111011101101 11001111111010111 11101101011101111 1101011010100101 00100111011010101 100100101110101 1110101111101101 11111110111111010 11010010110111111 1101110010100101 1111001111011011 00101001010011111 1101001011101101 100110111011110101010 0100011010100101 101010010111101011 1100101011100011 110110101110101 11101010111000011 1101001111010101000 10101111011011101 11010100101110010 111101101010101 01010011111111001 11101101110110001 11101010011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 73 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, on, and, we, in, i, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, i, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Quest Eternal;
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