This is an analysis of the poem XXX. 'Who follows Love shall walk in outland places' that begins with:
Who follows Love shall walk in outland places,
Beyond the common cheer of hall and town,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbb Xcbcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011101110 0101010111 11011101010 0111010101 0101010101 01010001010 1011011101 01010101010 11110011100 1110011101 11111101010 0101011111 1100010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; nor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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