This is an analysis of the poem The Soul's Quest that begins with:

PART I
IN the land that is neither night nor day,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aaabbXbccc dXddeeeX cXXbbXbaXX eXeEccCX CCcbbXbbbb eXeEaafX X gggccXcccc gXggeeEX aXXeeXeHhH aXaaCXcX eeXHhXHggg cXcccccX bbbggXgggg dXddiiXX dddjXXjeeE aXaa X bbbX gggCCXcccC dXddkkkX bbbaaXaeee aXXakkkX bbbeeXelll bXXbcccX HhhCcXXeee XXddaaaX dddiiXie
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,8,10,8,10,8,1,10,8,10,8,10,8,10,8,10,4,1,4,10,8,10,8,10,8,10,8,10,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 0011010111 1011100101 011101001 01111111 11111111 1 1011100101 1100100101 010101111 010100111 010100101 1 110101001 0100101001 010101001 1010100101 1010010101 1 11110111 011011110011 010101111 110110101 1011110111 1 0101010101 110110111 00111101101 1101011011 01010111 1 01111101 1010010101 011111101 11110111 010101101 1 01110101 011101001 11110111 010110111 10110111001 1 011011111 110100111 1100111001 10001111 1100100001 1 11111111 10100100101 1110100111 101110101 110101101 1 11 110100101 110101001 1110110101 11010111 11011111 1 01011100 111111101 110100101 10100111111 10010111 1 1011001001 100100101 11110101 10010101 10100100101 1 11111111 1011100110 1110101100 11010101 01110101 1 101110101 101100101 110010101 111110100 1010111 1 101110101 11111111 1010101 1011110 1010101 1 1010111 1000101 11111011 101100101 01010101 1 111110100 10010101 10010101 111110111 01010111 1 101010111 111100111 11101111 10100111 011011111 1 000100101 1010010001 101111101 001011101 1100101101 1 1010011101 11110101 01110101 1010011101 11010101 1 01010100 11010101 10111101 01010011 01110100 1 1110100101 0101011101 10100100101 110110110 01010101 1 0011100110 110110111 11111101 1010010101 01010101 1 11011111 0011010111 11 00100100101 0011101101 1011110101 1 100100101 1011100101 111011101001 01110101 011101001 1 01110101 001111101 11110111 010101101 1100101111 1 11110101 11000111 110110001 10010111 101111101 1 00111111 11010101 11110101 1110100011 1011100101 1 1011110111 110111011 110111001 1101001001 100100101 1 101010100 10100110110 011010111 110100101 11110101 1 11010101 11010101 01010101 01110101 01110101 1 11010101 11010101 01010101 11010111 01011101 1 1111010 11010101 11010101 11110100 11010101 1 101100101 01110101 11010100 1010101 1011101 1 10101011 01011101 11010101 01010101 01010101 1 110100101 01010101 11010111 01001101 110110101 1 11010100 01110101 01111101 11010111 11010111 1 01010101 11010101 11011101 11111101 10001101 1 01011110 110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 233
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, her, abbess, in, of, hush, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, and, hush, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words her, 'ave at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', hide are repeated).

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  • summary of The Soul's Quest;
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