This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 14 that begins with:

I had a companion with whom I had travelled for years and eaten salt. Boundless intimacy subsisted between us till at last he suffered my mind to be...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccX d dbcaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010011110101101101000100011111110110011010110111101010101101000100111000110111111010010100100110011010 1111101010 111101101 110000100110011 1010010000010100 111101110010000110100100110110110101011111001010100101100101101001110010011010011010010111 1110100010011 110101110 1111101101001 110111111 0111000101001 011101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 109 (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; my, of, i, and, his, not, thou are repeated.

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