This is an analysis of the poem Faint Yet Pursuing that begins with:
Heroic Good, target for which the young
Dream in their dreams that every bow is strung,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbbebeffgXghbhffccbieibeffjffjfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101101 10111100101 1101 1001110001 1101101101 110111 1101011111 111101 11110001101 1101010101 1011011101 0111 01011100111 0011 1101 111111 1111 11001110110 010111111 01010000101 01000100111 1101001 111101 011101010101 1101101 111110 1011 0111111101 00111101 01010100111 1111010101 1111110101 111111110 111101001010 1111 01110111111 11110011 1111 01011110110 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1384
- Average number of words per stanza: 262
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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