This is an analysis of the poem Follow Your Saint that begins with:

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet;
Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011100101 1111110101 1101010101 110100011110101 1011110101 11010001110101 1111100101 1111111101 1111110111 01010100110100 1111010101 01011101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; still, she, and, her are repeated.

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