This is an analysis of the poem In Quest that begins with:
Have I not voyaged, friend beloved, with thee
On the great waters of the unsounded sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbddcceedddffbbaa gghhiiddjjcccckkiieX ggjjddiillaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,20,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110101001 10110001001 10010000101 1011010101 100110110111 1001011011 0111110101 10011100111 1011010111 0011000111 11011111111 01001110001 1111100101 1101010111 1101110011 01110011111 1111011001 0111010111 1101000101 1011010101 1001010111 1111111101 1001010001 1111011101 0111011101 1100010101 1011111100 1101111101 0100011101 11100110111 0111010101 1101110101 0011110101 1101011101 01010110100 1001010001 01001000101 1101111100 0101010011 1101010111 0111010101 11010111110 110110001010 1111110101 0101110101 1111010111 0111011111 1111110101 1001011111 0111110111 0111111001 1111010111 0111110111 0111010111 1011111111 0111111101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 815
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to, of, can, and, thy are 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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