This is an analysis of the poem The Teacher Of Wisdom that begins with:

From his childhood he had been as one filled with the perfect
knowledge of God, and even while he was yet but a lad many of the... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccd efghid aif ajhd kelibmnneo cfcXg bihgp ifiXbaXaanX gedeg lX eacX kalX mmjX X alX lk if epahceeim hcXaebm bq chhnbX dd bfpX lX hh ba ki aedX eXqlfX khaX abiaiff nebd eefX ciX apk bfnlca ibnXomlelg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,3,4,10,5,5,11,5,2,4,4,4,1,3,2,2,9,7,2,6,2,4,2,2,2,2,4,6,4,7,4,4,3,3,6,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111101110001 100111011111011000 111110101011001100 011010110101100 010 11010110101101011 110110111000111 11001011110111 10001110111111111 001100111001111 01111101100 111010011101001 10111101111001010 0101010101010011 1111010111110011 1000110011111010 1011011001110110 1101010 1111010101101100 010110010101101 100111101101100101 11110110110110010 1010110101001100 1111000100010101 001001101011101 111111101111111 1011011101000111 001000101010 10101010110100100 00100100101011111 01011111110011110 0100101100111101 1001 11101110001010110 1000100100101011010 101011111100101111 0111101010010111 1010110010 111011011111001 10011110101111101 01001100110010101 10111111000110 00111110010010100 101111010101001 111100101110011010 011011110010001001 11011111101010101 11111111111111 1111111110101 111011111011101 11111001000110011 111111000101110 11101110001001101 01 1110011011101111 1001101010 11001011000101111 101001111010101 111100110011111 110100 11100111010101110 1110101111011101 1011011110101101 011 11010111011111 0001011110011111 01101011011111010 1 1110011101101011 1010110011110111 110001011101110110 1011100011 1110010111110110 001111101010 100101011010101010 0101111101101 11110111111010011 1011011001111010 101101011111110 10010001101101010 010111111101010 101101010111011 0101011001001011111 1010111001100100 10 11101010110010100 1111010101100110 10110011110101010 1011001001010111 111001010100110101 111101011010100 10 1010111111111110 11111111011001 111010110100110 10111111110101 01110010111111100 01011111001110111 11111101001010100 1101001 1010101111110110 1010011111011 101110111001000 101110111101101 1111101011101110 111111111011010 111011101010111 1001 10100101011011 11110010010 101101101010100 110010 111111011011110 1 11010010101001 1001101100110001 01000110110101101 010111011011 1101101011010101 011111000111001 10111100101111 0100111011101011 10011111110101011 100 101011011110110 11011001001011111 0100111110011101 01010110110111001 101101111011010 1110101111101010 1101111001010110 1111101001000101101 11100011111010 111011111011111 11010101111001 101011110111011 010111100110101 1100100110100001000 101 11011001101110101 10111111101001 101101101101011 110110010 11000101011111101 111111011100110 110110 100110011111001 10100100010110010 11010110 101101010110110 1111010101101111 0100101101111 111110111111110 11110111010100100 1101101 11010110010100111 010111101101010 10101101111011 1111110111011110 0111111100111101 111111110101110 11001110011001 111100110110011 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 164
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, as, and, he, cities, him, his, god, that, thou, who, to, about, you, talk, us, hands, in, me, my, have, pity, ', for, i, give are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, and, god are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines of, us, ' 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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