This is an analysis of the poem The Philosopher And The Philanthropist that begins with:
Searching an infinite Where,
Probing a bottomless When,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbabdXbefXXfefdXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 1001001 100100 100100 10010001 1001101 1001101 1000100 101000 10001001 1000101 1001001 100100 100100 1001011 1001001 1001001 100100 111000 10001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 546
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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