This is an analysis of the poem Remaining Vain that begins with:
Using the mind and not one's vanity,
Can limit feelings of sustained pain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdecb fXdd GFGGDX bhibhdhhXhih GFGGDX hX XXXiiefiicbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,6,12,6,2,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111100 110100011 01001111100 00111111110 010100101 1100110 00100101101 010 101111101001 11010010 11011 0110101 111 110011 10111 1011001 1101110 110111011 0101101 101001 1101011 01011101 1110101000 01 01010101 0110011 10001110010 011000 010100110000100 10101000 111 110011 10111 1011001 1101110 110111011 1110101 11110011010 1 101001 00 110101 1010 1101110100 1101111010 101110101 011101 10111010 01
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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