This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 23 that begins with:
I heard about a wealthy man who was as well known for his avarice as Hatim Tai for his liberality. Outwardly he displayed the appearance of wealth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc a XX d XeXcXdX a dXbX aXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,1,7,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101111111010011011010100100101001001110001010111001111101101001010010101010100101001101001000100010111110100110101011 0101100010101 011101100110 1111110001001000010100010100010011011010111100100100101011001 11111010110101011 001111100101 1100010100010100101110011101011100111011001001001011010 011001010000010100 10100010010110011 001010 0110011010 111101010 10101001 1000101011 001101111010010101110010001101111110110110100100111101010010011001011110111 100110001 010101010 001000010010110 00110101100 1010001011100100011110111 111100101 11110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 100 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 18
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, he, or, in, as, to, for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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