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

1.
I AM a little weary of my life-...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcabca X dedefdf X gchgicc X dggdgdd X cjcggjj X bkkblXb X gebXgbb X bbbbbbb X cmbbcbm X binehXn X ababbcc X ngognXn X jjfjfgg X aiaiahi X ejpjepe X ioimmoo X bollbol X oiiiooo X iiiiiii X jlXljoo X iciggcc X jejXbeb X ceXoeeX X hbqihbq X diodXoi X pipm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101010011 111110101 11010010101 11110010011 1011101101 1111011101 1111001101 1 1011110111 11110101111 1100011101 00110100111 0111011101 1000011001 1010011101 1 0100011011 0101111101 1101001100 0101001011 0011010101 10011110101 010101010101 1 1001111111 11011011100 1001011101 1001111101 1001011111 10110111001 011011010101 1 111100101 1011001001001 0111110111 11110011001 11010100001 0111011101 1111001010101 1 11111111111 11011111001 1110111111 1101101101 1101010111 1001111110 011011110101 1 11011111001 0101011111 1101010101 11011101100 1011011111 10010110101 1001110101 1 1110110111 1001010001 01110100001 1011000111 1011010111 1011011111 1011011101 1 1111010111 0111110001 1111111101 0101011101 1111011101 1001000101 110101010101 1 11110011111 1111111101 11111101010 110010110101 10111101100 101111011110 0111011101110 1 1111110101 10110010101 1111100101 11110100101 1111010101 1111111101 010101110101 1 11010111110 0101010101 1111110111 01011010011 11010101110 0100010110 1011010111110 1 1101110101 01010010101 0111011101 100001010011 1111001101 110011101111 1101110111011 1 00110100101 1111111111 1101010101 1101010111 1111111001 1011011100 111111111111 1 1101100101 11001010111 0111011001 1101010011 1101110111 111011101 01001010101 1 0111110100 1101111011 1101111101 0110010101 1110110011 0111001111 110010101 1 1111110101 1001000100 1101000101 10111110001 001010101011 1101011111 110101010101 1 1101110101 1001011101 1101011100 1011101111 1101010111 0101100001 1101010011 1 11110111011 1101011101 11011101011 1110110101 10111111011 1011110111 11111101011 1 110111011 1011010101 110101011 10110100101 1111010101 0101101111 1100010101001 1 1011111111 1111111101 1111010101 0111110011 0110011101 1111011101 101111110101 1 0011111101 1111100101 10110100101 1111101110 1111100101 0101011101 11011010100111 1 1101011111 1101011101 1001000111 1101001100 1111011001 11111101011 0101010000100010 1 0111011100 1111011011 11000100111 0011010111 1111011100 1101010011 011111010101 1 1111111101 1111010111 00110010101 11001000111 1111010110 1111011101 01111100101 1 1111010101 1010101001001 1111010001 10111010111 0101111110 011010111 011101010101 1 1111110111 0101110101 1110011101 1111011100 1101011101 1111110101 0111111111001 1 0101001011 1101010111 101101110010 11011101110 1111111001 1111011101 110111000101 1 0111011101 01001111111 0111011111 1100110111 1111011111 1111111111 1101111100 1 1100100001 1111111101 10111101011 1011000111 1111111101 1111010001 1111110011001 1 1101010111 1011010101 11001011101 01110010101 0111000111 0110110101 001101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 248
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i, beyond, willing, my, then, and, thou, life, me, to, can, thee, thy, it, his, god, without, two, our, that, soul, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, willing, of, who, thy, ideal are repeated.

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

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