This is an analysis of the poem Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 54 that begins with:

It is contrary to what is proper, and against the opinion of to partake of medicine by guess and to go after a caravan without seeing the road. The...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 001000101010100100001010011101100101011001010100101000110010010100101101101100101001111001010111011 01001000010010 11111111110 1111011010010 0101010100100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 118 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 21
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, what, not are repeated.

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