This is an analysis of the poem The Quest that begins with:
I am looking for Love. Has he passed this way,
With eyes as blue as the skies of May,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaX ccaaXX aabbbb ddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101111101 011110101 1011110101 110111101 1111110101 1011110101 011101111 0111110101 1011110101 1011111101 111110110 111110101 110110111 0111110111 1011110101 11101111001 1010110111 1111101101 110101101 101100111 011100101 101110101 1100100101 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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