This is an analysis of the poem Out And Away that begins with:

Follow, follow, you who sicken where the throngs pulsate and thicken,
Leave your doubting and your dreaming and your lazy, listless ease,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcd ecXcXfgf dgagedXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111010110110 111011101110101 10111011010101 101010111010101 1110101111111011 1011111010101110 10101010110101 1010111010111010 101111101110101 11101111110111 1011111010111011 1011001010101010 1010101010110111 10101011010101 001110101111111 1010101010101110 101010101010101 11101111010101 11101010100101 101101001101110 0010101110100111 11101111010001 11110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 497
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, for, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words leave, for are repeated.

    The author used the same word follow at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Out And Away;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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