This is an analysis of the poem To All That Love The Far And Blue that begins with:

TO all that love the far and blue:
Whether, from dawn to eve, on foot... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb ddddcdcX dadaeaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110111 10010111 01010101 11000101 11010101 10011011 01010101 11010111 11000101 11110101 01010101 00110111 11000111 11001111 110101011 10011110 11011101 01110111 11010101 01011001 11110111 1001110011 11110101 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; though, and, at are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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