This is an analysis of the poem A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - May that begins with:
1.
WHAT though my words glance sideways from the thing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccba X dedeede X fffffff X aghhaag X aXaaiee X gjgjkjk X lmlmnXn X Xggommg X gagaann X eleelel X faafafa X jpjpjjj X amgagma X hhhhhkk X eebbebe X kdakkad X qnqXnnn X fnfnfaa X qeffggg X iqifffq X memehhh X Xememoo X nmmndmd X hbhbeeq X jfmmmfj X ndnf
- 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 1111111001 11110011110 10010111010 1101010101 01011100101 010010100010 1101011100 1 10111011111 1010010101 1111010101 1111011111 1011110101 1111011111 010101111111 1 0101011101 011111111 1101011111 0111010111 0111110101 1101010101 111111110011 1 1111011111 1101111111 1111010111 0101110101 1011011111 0101010101 1101011111 1 11010000101 110010101100 0101110100 0111110101 0101011001 1001010101 1111001110011 1 11011111001 111011100101 11110101001 11010010101 0101111111 1111011111 1101010111 1 0111110111 1110011111 1101011101 11110101101 1101001101 11010101100 1011010101 1 11010111100 1001110101 01010011111 1011110111 11001011100 1110110101 0101111101 1 0111110111 1111010111 1101011101 11111101001 0101011101 0101111111 0101111101 1 1001111111 1111011101 1111110111 1101010101 0011111111 11110010101 111111010111 1 1011101101 01010101010 11011101010 1101100101 1101110101 1111011101 01110101011 1 1100011101 1111110101 1001011101 1011001101 1011110111 11010000111 1011011111 1 10111110111 0001011001 1011010101 0111011111 1111110111 1101110101 00101010111 1 01010010001 1111010100 01010100001 1101110101 010011110111 1110110111 0111100101 1 01111111111 10100011011 11111101010 1101110110 1111111101 11111111110 1101111101 1 1111111101 00110011001 11110101110 111100100100 1101010101 10110101010 111111001101 1 111101101010 1101101110 11110101010 1111011101 0101011011 1011011101 11111111111 1 0111011111 1011011110 1111011101 11010001111 1101111111 1101011101 111001101101 1 1111011100 1111010101 01110111101 1101100101 1111010101 1111010111 1111001010011 1 1111010101 00010010100 1101011101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1100101100 1 1111010101 11011000101 1101010101 1101000111 1101010111 1011000100 1011011101 1 1111100110 1101111101 0111111101 0011110101 1111110111 110101101011 1111011111 1 1001110111 1011010101 0111110101 0001011101 0111100101 0101010101 011101110101 1 1101111101 11010100110 0001110101 10011100110 1011011111 1101011101 111111101100 1 0101111101 1111111100 11101011101 0111011111 1101010101 1101100101 1011111111 1 1111101111 1111011111 1101110011 1011010111 1111010101 1011110101 0010011110001 1 1101001111 11010100001 1111110111 1111110101 1001110001 1100110101 1110011101 1 1111011111 01000100101 1101010111 0100010111 1000011111 0101110111 11010010101 1 1110100101 1101011101 10001110111 1101001111 1110011101 1011111111 1111101101 1 1111010101 1101110111 1100111101 0101011101 11010010101 0111111101 1111010101 1 11111101101 1111110101 1111011111 1001010101 11110111110 10010101010 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 61
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- 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; and, of, patient, my, one, me, from, through, or, their, give, to, i, thou, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, i, to, haste, through, oh, than are repeated.
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