This is an analysis of the poem The Mind’s Diet that begins with:
No life worth naming ever comes to good
If always nourished on the selfsame food;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aabb ddddeXffaaeegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010100 0111010101 0101111011 1111011101 111010101 0101011111 11001010101 1111010101 0111110111 11001010101 1011010111 0101010111 1101010101 1101011101 101100101011 1101010101 0101110101 1101110001 01110000101 1011010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101111101 01110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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