This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 03 that begins with:

I saw a religious man, who had fallen in love with a fellow to such a degree that he had neither strength to remain patient nor to bear the talk of...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXX b Xacc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010111100100100100111110100110101010010111010001001001001101011110 1111111011 1001110011 101111101010 0101111011 1110011011101001001011101010110101001100001111 010110110 1011111 1101010110 111100100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 80 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, he, of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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