This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 08 that begins with:
One of the philosophers forbade his son to eat much because repletion keeps people ailing. The boy replied: ‘O father, it is hunger that kills. Hast...
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001000101011011001101001011100010111111001000010100100110010110101010011111011 11111011011 111010101111 111000101011 101101110011 0110101010011010101 110111001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 99 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, that, of, it, not, eat are repeated.
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