This is an analysis of the poem A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - February that begins with:
1.
I TO myself have neither power nor worth,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababbcc X dededed X fXgXfhg X ceeXicc X gghghii X hiaiahh X efeXfeb X fiffijj X aibXbiX X hkhkhhh X lhhlhmX X ebeebbb X mhhmmff X hmmheme X fcfhhcc X hXXeegg X Xbbbbcc X edfedff X hhbbbbb X fjfccjc X ffiffii X lfblfgg X hhhhhnn X eheXhhi X nfnfeXn X bggb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 10111101011 1011110110 1100111001 1101101111 01011010001 10010010111 1111010111 1 01100110100 0101011001 1101010101 1001101001 0101111111 0011010001 1101011101001 1 1101001101 1111010101 1111111111 1001011111 1100111101 0111010001 1111110111 1 1111110101 1101111111 1111111101 1011010101 1011010101 0101111001 111111110101 1 111010111101 11110111101 0111010101 1111111111 1111011101 1011111111 0111110101001 1 1111100101 1111111100 1011010101 0101100010 1011010111 1111111101 1111010101 1 1111110011 110011111101 1011110111 1111101001 00111101001 1011011111 01010101001 1 1101010111 1101111100 1011110011 1101100111 0111110101 0101110101 010111111011 1 1111111111 1011000101 1111010101 1011100101 10110011111 11111001001 1111110111 1 1111111101 0101110101 0111111111 1111010101 11111100101 1101111101 1001111101 1 101111111 1001101111 0011010111 10110000101 1111010101 0011010111 1101110101 1 0101111111 0111011101 01111101101 1101010101 1011111101 1001011111 111111011111 1 1111111101 1100011101 1101001101 11111101001 0101011101 10011010111 1101111101 1 1111011101 11110001001 11101001001 1111000111 1011101001 10111111011 11110010111 1 11110101101 0101110101 10111100111 0111101111 1111111111 1011011101 1101001101 1 0111011101 0011101110 1101110110 1111000101 0111010011 11001010101 1111010101 1 11110010101 1011110001 1111111111 01010101011 1001110111 11010011111 0011101111 1 11011011011 1101011100 11010010111 1101110101 1101111101 1101011101 1101111111 1 1011010111 1111010111 1111110101 1111001101 0101010101 1101010101 0101000111 1 11011001110 1111100101 10110111010 1001011111 1101010101 11001110101 110111110101 1 1110011111 1101011101 111101001 1101011011 0111111101 1111111111 1111111101 1 0111110001 1111001101 11011100101 1011110101 1001010011 0101010111 000101000101 1 1101110101 0101111101 1011111101 1011011101 1101011110 1010101111 110101110011 1 1101011101 1111011111 10011101011 1101100110 1101011111 1101010111 1011111011 1 1001011001 010011101001 1011011101 1011010011 1001110101 11000110010 11111101001 1 1101010101 1111110111 1101011101 1101011011 0101110001 0101011101 10010001001 1 1111011011 1101111011 1000111101 01110101001 10110101100 0111010011 110100110101 1 0111111101 11000011111 1001000100 0101111001 1011100101 1101001111 1101010111 1 1011010001 1111010101 0011011101 1101111101 0111001011 11001010101 110010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 57
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 232
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; nor, self, i, thee, thy, to, thou, my, be, and, me, no, what, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, be, some, what are repeated.
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