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

1.
THOU art of this world, Christ. Thou know'st it all;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababXbc X dbdbbee X cfgccfg X hijhiji X khihihk X kakahhk X dgiidgi X fjjfcjc X lcXcmcm X kiiknnk X bkkkaba X oXoiioi X jccjjbb X bikibkb X jjkkjgg X bfbfkkb X ihihmmi X bibaiaa X blblbbb X bboobbb X nknaXab X bfbfbjj X cmcmffc X kpkpiiX X kikijij X ajaj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1100111101 11110111111 1111110111 1111010101 01011011100 1010010101 1001010101 1 11011101010 1111010000 11011011010 0101110101 01111111111 1101111111 111101111111 1 1101110101 1101011001 1101011101 0101011101 1101011101 1101111011 010101110011 1 0111010101 01110100111 1101110001 1111010011 01110101011 01010101001 110111111001 1 1111011001 1101111111 1101011101 11110010101 01111100101 01110110111 110001111111 1 1111011111 1111100101 1111110101 1001001111 1100111111 1001110111 111101111111 1 1111110111 1111010011 0111111110 00111011111 0011011111 10101101001 1001101100101 1 1111011100 1111110101 1001011011 0101010101 10111111010 01100010111 1101011101010 1 10110111010 0110010101 11110101010 0100010101 1011001101 1101000111 11110010101 1 1111110111 1111110111 1001001111 0101110101 1111110111 1100010111 1101111001001 1 1111110101 1111110001 11111010001 1101011101 01111010100 11000110101 1111111111 1 11111111001 1101010110 1011011101 1111011001 1101110011 1011110101 111111111 1 1001010101 1111011111 10011010101 1111001101 0111011001 1111011111 1111011001111 1 111111101 11110101001 1110100101 1111010111 11010111001 11010101011 11110111101 1 1111011001 1011010111 1101111111 1101110110 11110110111 1111001111 0111111101 1 1100001101 111110111110 1101010101 110101011011 1101010111 1101010101 1101111111 1 01011101001 1100010011 1111011101 1101100101 1111111111 1101011111 100101101101 1 1111100101 1100111111 11111100111 1001110111 10110110101 1111010101 110101110011 1 10110111111 11110011110 11110100111 11111101110 010011101011 01111111101 11010101011 1 11111111111 11111111111 11111110111 11111011111 11110111111 11011101111 1011100101111 1 0101010101 1100010100 1111111111 0011010110 0011011101 110101101 011101010111 1 1111110111 1111111101 1111110111 11011001001 0111111100 1111010111 1101010101 1 1111011011 10101100101 1101010111 11001010101 1101010111 1100010101 111001111111 1 01011101110 001010010011 01010101110 0111010001 0101011101 0101110111 0111111111 1 1111010101 1111010111 1111111101 1101110101 0101110101 00111011101 0111000101 1 110011010010 1101010101 01011111010 0100010101 0111011101 11010010101 100100110101 1 1111001001 1101011111 11110100101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010111 111111110111 1 11111001001 1111110101 1001010101 1101000111 1101110111 1001110011 010101010101 1 1111110111 1001010101 0101011111 1111010011 0111010101 1101001101 11010011101 1 1111110001 1111111111 1001001101 1111110001 0111111101 1111011111 1101111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 59
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, our, thou, of, to, what, in, my, i, thy, thee, know, not, child, her, love are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, how, to, my, sure, than, or, i, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, him are repeated).

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