This is an analysis of the poem Pleasure Xxiv that begins with:
Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, "Speak to us of Pleasure."
And he answered, saying: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a a X b c c d a c a a c X X e e X X e f e c e b c b f g a X f X b X e d g X XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011000101011111100101000 111010 1000101 100110 00010001010 100111 0001101001 100101101 0001101 10011010 101011000101 11111110010011111111110010 1011110100011111101 1111101011101 11111011001 1010101010001100110 111100111100011111010 11011001010001110100100 101001000011101000 1101011001011110100010 100100001100100 11101111110101110010 101101010100111101101010101010 110010100110 111110101111101001 1111011101010 10100010100011010101 11111111001 11010001111110001 1010010101011110010001000110 1111110100111011 101101010010101101001 1110001011 1001011110001011 1111011101101011000100110110 101111101111100010001010100010 10010010001001010001 1001010001001 10010010010001 10111100101001001000111100 100100001101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 41
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, them, pleasure, and, of, their, to, you, your, that, bee, flower are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Pleasure Xxiv;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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