This is an analysis of the poem Illness And Idleness that begins with:
Illness and idleness give me much leisure.
What do I do with my leisure, when it comes?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXac XXcbXcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011110 11110110101 1101110011011 111110110 1010010011100 0100100111001 0100100011010001 101001010001 1100111111010 010010111 101110111101 1111010 110101011 110100010011 11011000101 100111101 1010110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, of, it are repeated.
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