This is an analysis of the poem A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - August that begins with:

1.
SO shall abundant entrance me be given...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcbcab X dbdbeee X ffggege X hhahXXa X aeaaiei X jgiiiii X ikiiiik X lglljgl X hhmmiih X nniinaa X didiiiX X jolggol X ggjhhhh X aiaiigg X ppXllll X oioolli X gddadag X gbgbaga X apaapap X gXgbgaa X ggaaggg X qqccqqq X kikifkf X lllllll X bbbbbbb X kiki
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11010101010 0001110100 1101110101 1101010101 0001000101 11011111110 1101000101 1 0001110011 1111010101 1101110001 1101000101 1011010101 1101010101 01000101001 1 1111111111 0001110101 1101011101 0101110101 11110101001 1111111111 1101110101 1 11101110101 1011011101 1111011101 01111101001 10011111000 11100101001 1111111101 1 1111111111 1111111111 1111111101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010111 1101010011 1 1101110100 1101010011 1101111101 1001110101 0111011111 0111110111 110111011101 1 0101100101 11010100101 1001110101 110100110001 01001010101 0101010111 110011111100 1 0010110011 1101111101 1111010111 1111100101 1010010100 1101011101 1101110101 1 1101111111 1111110101 00110000101 1101100101 1101010101 1100110111 1111011011 1 1101010001 0111110101 1111111101 0101011111 01001011111 1101011001 111111110101 1 1101010101 0010010111 11101111101 010011011001 00110101111 1101010101 0110011011000 1 1111011100 1111110111 1011011101 0111110111 0111100100 11011010101 1001011111 1 1101011111 01001010101 1111011100 0100111011 1111010111 0101111101 0111011111 1 1101111111 0111010111 1001110101 10010101000 111011110011 1101010111 1001010011 1 1110011111 0100110101 1101110110 0001010001 1100111101 0011001011 0101011101001 1 1111011101 1111011011 1111111101 1101111111 0111001011 11001101101 111101110001 1 1111111110 0110010111 0101001111 10011000111 1001010111 1011101111 1111111001 1 11101111011 1001011111 11111111011 1111001101 0111110001 11010101011 1110100111 1 10111110011 0111110101 1101111011 1011111101 1101010101 1101010101 11010111001 1 0110011111 0000111000 1101010101 01011101001 1111111110 11111111001 1111001111 1 1100101101 1101111101 1111111101 1001111101 1111011101 1011011101 110101110011 1 01110010010 110011110110 11010111011 11010101111 10110111110 11110101110 1111110111110 1 11110011010 1101110111 01110001010 1101010111 110101001011 11110101010 010111110101 1 1011111011 1111111101 0110011101 0110000101 0111111101 10001110101 011111001111 1 1110110101 1100101101 0100110101 11001010100 01100001001 00010000101 1001010101 1 1101111111 1101010101 1001001101 0101110101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010111 1 1101010001 10010100110 1001010101 1101011101 11011100100 1101010100 0101010101 1 11111100010 11111100101 11001101110 1011010111 0111110101 1011010101 0111010101 1 0101110001 11110101000 1001000101 1101011011 0101110101 11111101111 0011100100 1 11100100001 110010101001 1111010111 1101011101 0101010111 11011100101 111111001111 1 1111111101 1101110101 1010010101 11011100011 1001010101 0101011100 111101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 248
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, my, i, in, thee, me, of, yet, dust, when, call are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, thou, that, when are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

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