This is an analysis of the poem The Duellist - Book Iii that begins with:
Ah me! what mighty perils wait
The man who meddles with a state,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeffbbgghhiiaahhbbaajjjjkkhhllddbbhhggddbbaajjaajjjjmmjjjjjjbdddccjjllnnmmopbbaabbjjjjaajjccjjjjjjkkhXaaccjjaaqlaaddrraahhjjhhjjsskkmmjjjjcccceeggccjjbbffeejjkkccaajjggaacXeebbddcchhccttaaaaaaaXddaaeeddbbmmccopggjjccmmhheeaaaaeebbjjbbjjjjjjaanna
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 474,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01110001 10010101 11011101 11011100 11010101 11110101 01110101 11010111 11011101 10111111 11111111 10010101 11110101 11010101 01001101 10010101 11010101 01011001 11010101 010111010 111100110 00110101 01110001 11110101 100011100 01010101 10011101 010010101 11010101 11110101 11000101 11111101 11010101 100110001 11010111 11010101 11111101 11110101 01010001 10110101 10111001 11111101 01011101 110010101 10110101 01010101 01010101 01111101 10011101 01010101 11110101 111001010 110101110 010010111 11110101 10010101 01111001 01110001 10111101 10010111 11110101 10010101 11011111 11110101 100011101 01010011 11010101 11010111 11110001 11001101 11010111 01010101 11011101 0100111001 10011101 10110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 10110011 101100011 01010001 11001111 110101001 01110101 01111101 01011101 10010101 11001101 11101101 11010101 111100101 11111101 01111101 01011101 10111101 11110101 11110111 01010101 101000101 11010001 01010101 11110111 010010101 00110101 10010101 11010111 00110001 110101101 10010101 01010010 01010101 11001101 10010111 11010101 011100111 010111001 11110001 11010101 01110100 01010101 10110101 11010101 01010001 01011111 11010101 01110101 11111111 01010001 11011101 11010001 11111011 11010111 111111010 110101010 00010001 11111101 1100101101 11011101 11000111 010100101 11110011 11111101 01111111 100101101 110100101 10010101 110111001 11110001 11010101 01010100 010011011 1111111111 01111101 11011111 01010111 10010011 10110001 01010001 01011101 11011101 11010101 11111101 11111011 01000101 01011111 11011111 01000101 01010101 1110000101 01111101 11110101 01110001 11111101 01011101 11010001 11010101 11011101 11010101 01010111 00011100 11111101 11010101 110101010 100100110 01110011 100110111 10010101 11010011 10110011 10010101 01110111 11110101 10110011 111100101 01011101 01110001 11010101 10010101 111111010 1100101010 11100101 111111111 10111001 10011101 11100101 01111101 111111011 111111011 1111110010 110100010 110010101 10111111 10110101 10100101 1110101010 110101010 11011101 11110101 11110101 001011101 01010111 11001111 11110111 00110111 11110101 10110101 11111001 110010101 10010101 11011101 0100110111 110010001 110010101 11010101 11000101 10111101 00011011 11001101 11001101 11111101 10101100 11101101 01100101 01010101 11011101 11010101 11010011 01110111 01110101 01110101 010011010 100100010 01001101 11010001 01010101 01110101 01010101 110100101 01001111 11100111 01011101 01010100 01100101 01011101 01111011 01111101 11010101 01000111 1101111001 11010101 01110101 11010101 101010111 11110101 11010101 11010101 100111111 11110111 10011001 01110101 01011101 01110101 01000101 11110101 11010001 010101011 10110111 00111011 10111101 01010100 01011101 01110111 11010001 11111101 11000101 01010001 011100101 11000101 111011110 11010001 01011001 11010101 110100101 10110101 11100101 10111101 111101001 11010101 10110101 11010101 11110111 101011110 11011111 01010101 01110101 11010101 11111101 10110001 11110101 11010101 11110101 11001101 110111001 10110111 11011101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11001101 01010101 11010111 01110101 011101001 11010101 10111111 11110001 11111101 11011101 10110111 11010101 01010101 11010101 11110101 01110011 01110101 11011101 11110111 01000101 11110101 011010101 11010101 01110101 01010111 11110111 01011100 01000100 11010101 11111001 01011011 11011101 11110001 01110111 11111111 11010101 01000101 01110011 11110111 11000101 10011001 00010001 11010101 01010100 01010101 01010101 010100101 01010001 110101110 010101110 10011100 10011101 01110101 01010101 11111111 01000111 111000111 11010101 10111111 11011100 11010001 01010001 10010111 11100101 11010101 01110111 101001001 01101101 11010011 010100111 11000101 11111001 10010111 11110111 10011101 11111101 10011101 11110101 10010101 11011001 10010101 11010101 11110111 11010101 11010111 11010101 11110101 11010011 11010101 00110011 010100001 11110001 01000111 01010111 11010101 11001101 110011011 11010110 11110101 11010101 11110101 00111101 11011101 10010111 11010001 11000101 11010111 11010101 11011101 10111101 11011101 11010101 11010111 01010101 01110101 11010110 11100101 01110101 11111101 01110111 01110101 11001111 10110101 01011101 11011101 11111101 11010101 01110001 11110111 11111101 11011101 11110101 111011001 01010101 01010101 10111101 100110111 11111111 11010101 11010011 1001011 11110101 11010101 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 16876
- Average number of words per stanza: 3100
- Amount of lines: 474
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, her, and, she, in, of, with, their, he, bid, our, my, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, by, could, she, one, a, he, in, his, to, bid, too, each, all are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, it, him are repeated).
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- summary of The Duellist - Book Iii;
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