This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxxiv Fortune’s Changes that begins with:

Once I wandered, an expert in crazy wisdom,
a scant and infrequent adorer of gods,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX aXac aXXX abcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011001010 01101010001 111011101 0110011010 11001001001 110001010010 1001110010 1011001011 10111010010 11111001010 11010101 011010001010 00101101011 00100111010 001101001 0110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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