This is an analysis of the poem With Madness Like To Mine that begins with:

NOT one is filled with madness like to mine
In all the taverns! my soiled robe lies here,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccb dedefXe gcgcddc Xfbfhhf ijijeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 0101011111 1101011111 0111011101 0101010111 1101011101 0111111111 0111101101 0101011101 0111110101 10001011101 0110111101 0101101110 1111000101 1101111111 1101011111 01110001001 0111011101 0010010101 110111101 1101110101 1111011100 1101010101 11111111011 11010101001 1101010111 1101111101 1010011101 0101010101 0101111101 0100111101 0111110001 1011011111 0111010101 1101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • 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; my, i are repeated.

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