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

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THE song birds that come to me night and morn,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xababbcc X defdeff X ghghiji X XXkhllk X mfmmmfm X nccncgg X ogoggog X lilljij X nengegg X liplipp X eeefeef X mfmmfee X oommeme X iojommo X eoeofff X cececee X aqaqaaa X adeaded X Xglleee X lleefff X gkeXkee X ekekkaa X raaragg X himihmm X afafabb X isis
  • 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 0111101111 1101110011 1011010101 0011011101 1111110001 1100011111 1111110111 1 10001011111 11110110001 10001001101 1101110011 0101001101 1011110110 01011100111 1 1000111011 1110111011 11110100101 1001111111 10111100111 0101010100 0111110011101 1 1001011111 10110111101 11010000100 0101111101 0101010101 001100101 1111010101 1 1111100101 1101110111 1101000101 1101111101 10101110101 1101110101 011111110101 1 0100111111 010011111001 0100010101 10011000101 1101110111 0111110101 1011110101 1 1010111101 1101110101 1111111111 0111110101 0101001011 10110111101 1101110101 1 0011110111 1111111101 1101111011 1011010101 110101000100 1101110101 1101011010 1 1100110001 1111011101 00101100111 1111110101 110010101001 0101000101 1010101110101 1 11010101001 11000010101 1110010001 1110010001 1111010101 1101110111 1111011011 1 1111101101 1111010101 0100110101 0100110111 01111011111 1101110111 1111010101 1 1111011101 1101101101 0100111101 11001010111 1010111101 1101110011 110101010001 1 1111110101 10010110111 100100110101 111101100111 1101010111 1111001011 1111001010101 1 11010101001 11010101101 1101111100 1111110101 11011111001 10001100101 110101111111 1 1111101111 1000110101 1100010101 1101011101 0111111011 111011101111 010101111011 1 1111011001 0111110101 0011110101 1111110111 0101011111 0101010101 1001011001001 1 1101010101 0101010110 1101010101 11110110001 11001010101 1001010101 111101111101 1 1111110111 0001010111 1111111111 1111110111 0010111001 1111011111 111101011101 1 1111010111 1101111101 1111110101 1101011101 11001011011 10110111101 111101110111 1 1111010101 1101110101 1111010111 00101001101 01010101001 1101010111 1101110101 1 11111101010 11011101010 0111010101 11000010100 101111111110 0101000101 1101111111 1 1111111111 1110010101 1100101001 1111010101 01011110111 1011001101 1101100101 1 11011111010 1111000101 1111110101 001101001110 1010101111 11010010111 1111011101 1 11110111111 1001010001 1111110101 0101010001 1011011101 0111011101 11001010111 1 0111011111 1111111101 11100011101 0101111111 0111011111 1011110111 1101011111 1 1001011101 0001010101 01001101111 1011010111 1111110101 11000100110 1101010101000 1 1011011011 1101011111 1101111101 1101111011 01010011111 11110011111 10011110010 1 1111001101 0111110111 100100110000 11001111001 01011100111 0101010011 11011000101 1 1010111111 1110110101 1101111001 1111000101 1111010101 11100100111 0111111101 1 1111010101 1111111101 0011111111 11010101011 0111111101 110100001001 0101111101 1 1111011111 1111101111 1111100111 1101111101 110111011110 00011110010 0101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 248
  • 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; thy, to, and, love, in, i, all, of, art, or, no, self, me, you, nor, us, make, not, cup are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, to, thou, the, i, from, all, nor, he are repeated.

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