This is an analysis of the poem Faustine that begins with:
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes’ peace;
Let your head lean... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abXb abab cbcb dbdB ebeb fXfb gbgb hbhb ibjb bbbb dbdb fbfB dbdb ibjb abab kbkb fbfb fbfb Xbfb lblb mbmb fbfb nbnb gbgb mbmb dbdb ibib dbdb mXmb abab dbdb fXfb abab obob dbdb dXdb nbnb ebeb ababXhbhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 1111 10010001 0110 01010101 1101 01010111 1110 11110101 1111 01110111 1110 11011101 1111 11111101 0110 11110111 10101 110101101 1110 11011111 1101 11111101 1110 10110111 1111 11011101 1110 01111101 1111 10110101 1110 011010101 1101 11110101 1110 01000110 1101 11111111 1110 110111010 1011 010101110 0110 11111100 1101 11111011 1110 1011110101 0101 11011111 1110 01011011 1011 010100101 1110 11111110 11111 111101001 1110 10110100 1111 11110101 0110 11011101 1111 11011111 0110 11011101 1111 01111111 0110 11010111 1101 11110101 11010 110111010 1110 010111011 1110 11111001 0111 110011111 1110 11110111 0111 1100100011 1110 11010101 0101 10111011 0110 10011110 0101 10010111 1110 01010111 0101 11110100 0110 11011111 1101 110110101 0010 11110101 0111 11110101 1110 110101010 11101 1101010010 0110 01011111 1101 110010101 01010 11010111 1100 101100101 1110 01010111 1101 11110111 0110 11110111 1101 110100101 1110 11010101 1100 110010011 0110 11010111 1101 11001101 0110 1011010010 1111 01011101 0110 11011101 0101 01110101 1110 11011111 0100 110010001 1110 01111011 1110 11111100 0110 11110011 0101 10110111 1110 11010101 1111 11010111 1110 11111101 1111 11110111 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 41
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 164
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, what, and are repeated.
The author used the same words a, you, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word faustine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Faustine;
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