This is an analysis of the poem A Dilettante that begins with:

Good friend, be patient: goes the world awry?
well, can you groove it straight with all your pains? ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcbd Xefbbegbhid gXb jbkbblbbbaeadXlebielelgXbe bllkabXblgh kbgjlllXXaeiikgbbhbhb bfdamga aaheajbjabbeblgb lilbb jgelXbiibhiedXgXdkfeiiegebijalbiibg cbiidiibaemkii egabiag eXlgabadXefleldehef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,3,26,11,21,7,16,5,35,14,7,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 1111010111 1111110110 1111111101 1100110001 1011110101 1111001101 0101110101 11110010111 0101011101 1101110001 1101111001 1101110101 1111111101 1111011101 1111110100 1001111101 1111110101 010101100100 1001000101 1111010101 10010101001 110100101111 100100010011 1100010101 1111110001 0101011101 01000010110 1001010101 1100010101 110010101 0100010011 10110101001 1001010101 0101111101 1111111101 1101110101 1110010101 01010010001 111101011 1101010101 1101010100 010100111 0100111100 1011010111 01011010001 1100111101 1100010101 11110011111 0101000101 11110111001 1111010101 1101101000 1110110101 0111001101 1111010101 11011100101 1100110111 11001110011 10011101101 1001010111 0101110101 0101111101 11010100101 1100010100 1001011101 1111111101 11110011001 110010101001 1101010100 01001011111 1011010101 11010101001 1011011101 1011011101 01001011101 0101010111 100100000101 1101111100 0101010101 0101111111 1111110101 1001010101 11010101001 1110010111 1001110001 1110011111 0101111100 0101011111 1101110100 1101111111 11110111001 1001011011 1100110111 11111001100 10111101010 1111001111 01111101101 1101110101 1011110111 10110101000 1011010101 1101111111 1101011101 0101111111 1101010101 1011110101 1101010111 0111100111 10011101001 11111101000 1101111011 1101010111 1101111100 11010101010 1100011110 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 0100111110 1011010011 110111111 1100111011101 1111001001 1101000101 100010101101 1101010101 1011011111 10011000101 1101110001 1100011011 1111011011 11110010101 0101110111 0101010101 01010000101 01011111010 1100111101 1101011101 0110010101 1111010101 1111111111 1111010101 1101010101 1111111111 1111010111 1101111101 1111011111 1101001101 1101010101 1101010100 1111011001 1100110101 1111010111 1101011100 10111100011 10011010110 1111011101 11000111101 1011011111 0111010001 1111111011 1101111011 11001110111 0111111111 11001111111 1111111111 11110011001 0101010110 0111111111 1111111111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111110111 11001010101 1101011111 1011001101 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 575
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, of, with, to, it, i, sea, you, or, sees are repeated.

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

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