This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 28 that begins with:
It is related that an athlete had been reduced to the greatest distress by adverse fortune. His throat being capacious and his hands unable to fill...
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- Rhyme scheme: a bb c dXbXef b dgbb b bdbh c bcXi j klXdimnajo a ibomdj b hjhi a mahm l ccmh i hdha p aa d pe b idbdh e hk i XpheXk m Xpbbmm b milh a mckh n blcp h bf b bjmdbhhal h ja m Xcbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,6,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,10,1,6,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,2,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,6,1,6,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,2,1,9,1,2,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001011111001001001101100110010101010010101001011110100101110010010010101101001 1001111010100 101001110111 01001111100101011010010100101001111111001101001011010001100010100010 1111010111 0010011010111 0111100100111011 10001101001000 1111110011 010101010101 0101100010001011011101000101010100100110011101001001010011010010011000100010100101001100100001101000010011 1111100101101 111001011110 1110001 0111111001 01001110010001011110101001101101010011001100101010010000111010111111110010101001001011100100101110101001010101001001 01101010010101101 0101111001110101 1110101001001 1000110010101 100010101010000101000100101000101001110001011 01000110111 110110101011 1100100100101010 111101001010 10101001010101101001001010110101001011110101010100010010110101110000100010100101100100100 0100101010101101 11011001010110110 111011100010010 111110100101110 011010001010 0101100111110010 101001001110 01010010101 1001011101001 010110101001 101001110100101110010110101100101101010101010110100010001 101000110100100 10101010101 1100010110101 001001010110101 101010100101 0100100100101101 100100110010101101001110101001101001111111 011010011 0100110110110 10010010010 01010010110 010011101111100100010010100011000010111101010010101000011110101101010111 1101010001 00101010101 010101010101 001011010111 0111101111100000100011111111001001110100101000010101011110010010011100010110101110110 1110111101 001000010101 111110100101 111100010010 1111011001001100101000100100010110111100101111100100010100 101110001110 11111110010101 11100111011 0101011011011 1010011100100010110101011001 010110111101 10011101101 11010010010111101101110101011001010 0101001100101011 0101111011001 11001010100101000101010101011010011010101110010100111110000101011101011 110010101000110 101110111101 1011011111 011110111101011 1101011101011 0111110101001001011011001101111010010011001101010011110111110001010110110101 010110100011 10011110001 11101111101110001010100011110110010110010010101000111011101001011100101011100101010 1110100100 01100010101 110111010 01110111 101111100 11010011100101 1010110110101111101110100100101101011000111001011101001001011000100101010001011011001010010110100011111010011001010011100101100010110110100111110111010011110011010100110100110101011111001110100111101000110001001 11110010 11101111111 011011110010 01110110010 11011010001 011000111001 111111001001101110010010100101000111011010110111110100101101111001011100010101111111101011101001101011011011101111111010111010101111010011111101111010101010010101111011101010100101110110011010100101111000011111001111110101110 0101010101100 0101001001100 1010110010 11010010010 1010001001100100101110010001001010010101010001011001111111100110111001010110101001010111101100010010110101100100101000100101001101110010001110101001101010010010010110101100111011010101000100111111101101001101100101111101110100101100101100101010101010110111100111001001001010100100101001011010011100101110101111101101010101010010101010101100110011100100101110110011011110011100 1101010010 11110101 010011001 101000100101 1111100101100101111011010010111010010010010101100111110101001101101010001111110101010101110101101010101101011101101011011001110111011111111010011001010 1010110010101010 0101101001010 110100110 1110101101 0111101101001110000010101100111010011001110100011110100101010010010100011111111111110000101110011011101100101111001010010101011010110101010010011101101010101101110110110100010111000101101010011001000010010001010110100001011010101001111111111010101101010101101010010 11111010101 0101010110101 01011101110010101001110111011101110011111100100111001100111110111010010101011011101000101110011011110 11111001011101 1000100010010100 0010101011 1010101011 0101100100111110101 1001100101010001 111010101 0110001111 1111111010 010100110010101001001101101101010111101000111111110010101000011011011001001 0101111001010 01101110100101 101011001011010100101111110010011001000010001011001001101010100001011011010111110110010110010011010001010101010111101001110101000100011001010010110100110110101110011100101010010100001010110111011101101011011010100 00110110101 01010001 01010111001 10110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 48
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 128
- Average number of symbols per line: 126 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 23
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, of, his, that, as, in, thou, world, every, he, i, with, it, by, although, may, not, money, no, boatman, man, offence, said, head, one, him, began, but, on, had, caravan, people, till, at, father, wilt, ring, has, be, thee, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, what are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world, afflicted, fort are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word world at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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