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

1.
FROM thine, as then, the healing virtue goes...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabaaccb X adaadad X deffedf X gfaXXaa X fhfeXii X efjejfe X igihgee X kdklkdl X feeffmm X mmndnbb X eeeeXee X iXoippp X mbbmggg X fXfffff X gagXeXe X bffbfbf X boboqqq X fmddXmf X fgggffg X rreeooh X qfmqfmq X nsdsoos X gngddoX X ggfXfhX X qrtqrqt X eeee
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0111010101 0011100101 0101010101 0111110101 1011011101 11110010101 01010011001 1 1111110111 1000110001 1101011101 11001010101 100010100101 1011011111 1101111101 1 0001110101 1111100101 0101010111 00101010011 1011010101 1101011101 11111100101 1 110100100101 1111111111 11001011101 10110110100 1011110101 1111011111 1001010101 1 1101010011 1101011100 01110101010 1001101101 1110011111 1101010101 110110111 1 1111111101 0101010011 0101011111 0111100101 1100110101 0101010101 10011100001 1 1101111111 0100110011 1101011101 11010100100 1100110111 1101111100 011011111101 1 1101011101 1111010111 1011011011 01011111001 0101011111 1111110011 100111100101 1 1001011011 1101101111 1111011101 1011010101 01001101001 0001001100 1110011101 1 11101110110 1011110100 11011101110 0111111101 010110011010 11010101111 1101011001001 1 1111110101 1101010110 1111011101 1101010101 1011010011 0101111111 101110111101 1 10111101111 1011110101 1001010101 11110101111 1011111101 1101011101 1101001001 1 1011110101 1001011101 0101011101 1101011101 0101111011 1111011111 1111000101 1 1111010011 11010110110 1111100101 1111011101 1101101101 1011011101 110111111101 1 1101110000 0101110011 1111010101 1111001100 0101110101 0101010100 010101110100 1 1101110111 01110100101 01010011101 0101010101 1001010101 010011100111 0101010101 1 0111010101 0111110101 0111011101 1101010011 01010100101 01100010100 010101111101 1 0101010111 0110011001 1101001101 0100010101 1110010101 0101000011 010101010011 1 11110110001 0101111010 1101111111 0110101101 0101010011 11010101001 110101000101 1 11010111100 1101010100 1101010111 0011100101 1101001101 110111101011 1111010100 1 1111111101 1001011101 11011010111 1101111111 1101110101 0101010101 0111100111 1 110110010010 10010010001 10110011010 1011110101 1101110101 10110100101 1101010101 1 1011010110 10001110010 110101001 10011001010 1101010001 1101100101 1101010110 1 1001111101 1101110111 11110001011 1111111100 1011010111 1101000100 1011111000 1 1111011111 1010110100 1111010101 1101011111 11010010111 1000010111 1111110101 1 1101011111 1100101101 1101110111 1001100001 1111010111 110010101001 1111011001 1 1111011011 1111111110 1111110111 1111111101 0101010011 11011010101 00010011101 1 1101110101 0111001100 11010110100 1110110101 1111110111 1001011111 1100110101 1 11100000101 1111001011 1101010111 01010111100 0101011101 01010100101 100101110111 1 1101011111 1111111100 1101010111 01010101000 1101010111 0101011110 1111110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 59
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • 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; it, thy, with, and, to, her, thee, they, he, know'st, some, of, nor, love, i, say, me, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, to, know'st, my, thus, a are repeated.

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

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