This is an analysis of the poem A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - July that begins with:
1.
ALAS, my tent! see through it a whirlwind sweep!...
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcab X ddeedff X ggbbddd X heXhXhb X ggggiii X jijibbb X gdbdgbk X ghchgll X mnmnnnn X hmhhomo X ejjeddd X dldlldd X hpnpnhp X bafbaXf X ididbbi X fllllfl X jjbjhbX X bababkb X qgcccqg X dgddiig X ncnnoXo X nnffnff X mmddiXm X hnhXrXh X bkhhiii X grgr
- 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: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 01111100111 1011011101 1101010101 1100010110 1101010100 1111000101 1101000101 1 01011011001 1101110111 101111111 1101010101 1111100101 010101000111 1101111001 1 1111010101 1111110101 1111011001 0111011011 11001101001 11101101001 1111010101 1 1011001101 1111111101 111101110 1111011111 0111001100 1111110101 1101010111 1 111001100101 11001110101 0101011101 1111011101 1110100111 1101010001 1111011101 1 0011110101 01010100101 1111101111 1111111101 1111011110 0111010101 1001000101 1 1111011111 11000111001 0111011101 1011111111 1101110110 1110111111 110111010100 1 1101010011 11110111001 11111101100 11110101111 11001010101 1111010111 11010100101 1 0110110001 0101010101 00110100101 0101011101 1001010111 01000010111 110101111101 1 0101111101 11111001010 1101010100 0111010001 1110110101 110001110010 011101110101 1 1111111001 1101000101 1101010111 11010010011 1100110101 0101010101 11010000101 1 1100110101 1101011101 1001000101 1001010101 1111110101 1001000101 1100010101 1 0111010011 0100010011 0101011101 1111000101 1100010101 1101110101 1111110001 1 11110011001 1101001101 0101011101 1111110111 1111011111 1111011110 111101010100 1 11011100101 1101010101 1011110011 11011101011 1111101101 11011101001 1111011111 1 0101110011 01010101001 10010101111 0111111111 1111010101 1101010101 1111011101 1 1101101111 1111010010 1001111111 1111011100 0111011101 11110110101 1111001100 1 1111111101 1111111101 1011011001 1101110101 1111110011 1111011100 1111001101 1 1111010111 1011000111 10110011010 00110101010 111011010010 1111010011 010010010101 1 11010011001 1101011100 1111011101 1111010101 110011100001 1100011111 110111101 1 1111100101 11111101010 10011010111 10011010101 1001010101 11111110010 1111000100 1 010101000111 1101010011 1011000101 1101000101 1101011101 0101110111 01101111101 1 0111001111 1101110111 0110110101 01110000101 1111010101 1111010011 1101110101 1 11010110101 1011011111 010010011 11000011101 1011011101 1010111010 0111010101 1 111110000111 1011010100 0111010011 1010101101 1101000101 1001010101 1111111101 1 1111110111 1110111101 1101110101 1101111101 0101101111 0101010111 111111110101 1 0101011101 1111111011 1011000101 1011011101 1011111101 01010101001 1101111111 1 1111010100 1101110111 1001010111 1101111101 1101110101 1111111111 1111101111 1 11010100101 0001111111 1101110111 1111110101 1111011101 1111010110 10111010101 1 1101010101 1111011111 10001111111 1111101101 1001110111 1001010101 1101111101 1 10010001101 1101111111 10110111110 1111010101 0101010101 01101010101 111011110111
- 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; thine, my, we, thou, thy, to, christ, by, of, whatever, he, me, many, i, and, in, sun, flower, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, thou, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases destroy, right connect the lines.
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