This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish, The Arab Physician that begins with:
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs,
The not-incurious in God's handiwork ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefddeghicjiefdai XdXgckXglagmmidemlnhafmllabcoXmgafXcpapXc pefqfreisacmcsoef XdatdoeccpufkdXfdgeinuamisnfnovfsotqhfcehbeibfonifgacdscaegXmpsgiajeoacdXceadamabXdchlcdcGrdaddbsjonXucdnelageaXegagelcccangfadrfswalajmocacicejgXmerXcabidgccdgaeae eXeejopfm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,41,17,164,40,21,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 0110001101 0111110001 1101010101 0111111101 1101000111 0101100011 1001011111 1101001111 0101111111 0101010111 1101010101 1100010101 0100110101 0101000111 1101110101 11001100101 1001010101 1101011111 1101010101 1100010101 111011100011 1101011100 1111011111 11001011001 10010101110 0100010100 1110010101 01110110101 1011010101 1111111111 1101011101 1101011101 1101110100 1011011101 0100110101 0101110101 1111111101 10011110011 0101001101 1101110101 0101000100 0101110101 11010101001 1111010101 1111010101 1001011111 1111011101 01001001100 0101010100 1101010101 1111010011 11010101000 1011011111 1111101100 1101011101 110110100 0101101101 0111010100 11010111111 1101010111 11110010100 1000010011 0111111111 1101011111 1111010101 1111010101 1000110011 0111000101 0111111111 1100110011 0011010011 0111011101 1111011101 1101111101 0101010111 1100001010 1111110111 110101001000 1101010101 0101010111 1101010011 1110000101 0101111101 0101110111 10111101001 1101011111 10011001100 0101110101 1100110101 1101110100 1111110100 1000011101 0101110101 1101110011 1111011111 1101110101 1111011101 1111110101 10100010001 10011101101 110110111 1101011101 0101010111 1101000101 1101011111 1111110101 0100110001 1001010001 0101010100 1101010101 1101110101 1111011101 1101011101 1101111111 1101011101 0111011101 1100011110 10110100101 0111010111 1101010101 1101011101 1100111101 1001111111 1101010011 1001001101 1101011101 01001010111 1111000101 0101001101 11001010101 1101110011 0111111101 10010100111 1011001011 1101010101 0101011111 0101000011 1111010101 0101010100 10100011111 11101111010 0101000101 0100010011 1100010101 10010010100 0100010101 1001000101 1111010101 1011011011 0101010100 1111100101 1101001101 1101010110 0100110101 1111100101 1011110001 1000011100 1011010111 1101000100 1100000101 1011010111 1110011101 01010110001 1101011101 01011110110 11001011111 1110010001 1111111101 1111000001 1101001100 1001011111 1001111111 1101110101 11011010111 1111110001 10010110011 1111001101 0001011000 1101110101 0101101111 1100111101 010001010101 0101010110 0111110111 1001100010 1001111111 0101011101 1101011101 11110110101 11011010001 1011011101 01111101101 10010100101 0100111111 01011101001 0100010001 0111010101 110000100111 1000010111 1101110101 01001010001 01010001000 1001001100 1010110001 11111101010 010100101001 01101110111 1011010101 1111111111 1101010111 1101011111 1101110101 01000110000 11000110101 1111010011 0101010110 1011011101 1011101001 1101110101 1111110100 1001110101 0111010111 11110111111 1101001111 0101010101 1000111111 10110101010 1111110001 1011010101 00101110111 1001110101 1001011101 1100110011 1101010101 1101010111 0011010011 0100110101 11001010100 10011001100 100100101 0111111111 1110111110 1101010100 11010100101 0100010101 010101011 10001010001 0111010100 0100010101 1101010101 0111010111 1000110101 0011001101 1110010001 1110110111 1110110100 00110101001 1111011111 0101000101 1111110101 0101110011 1101110100 0111111111 0111010001 1101110001 0111010101 1101111101 0101100001 1111011101 1011111111 1101111011 11010011111 1111111101 11111000101 0100010100 1111100111 11010010101 10110010101 1101010001 11001001001 1001010001 11010111001 1111110111 0101110011 1111010101 0110010100 1101011110 0101010100 1101111111 1101011101 1111011111 0111010101 1001011100 1011011111 0011011101 0111111101 0101010101 000100100111 1111010100 0100011101 1101011111 1111110111 0101110111 1011001101 1101010101 1011110111 1111010011 11110110101 1111101101 11111111111 0111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1994
- Average number of words per stanza: 350
- Amount of lines: 312
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, of, that, first, life, as, or, it, please, god, thy, to, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, as, and, the, so are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase earth connects the lines.
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