This is an analysis of the poem Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 01 that begins with:
I was holding a disputation with a company of learned men in the cathedral mosque of Damascus when a youth stepped among us, asking whether anyone...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcc X daef X eXdafgag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001100010001100010100101011011101010011010100100111110101111111111101100100100011101001011111101110101001111110100110101101010010010110101011 01011111111 1010101101 0110010001001 101001110001 101001100100100010001100101010011101000010001111111111011111 1111110011 01011110010 010101001010 1111001010010 1111010001010000100111001001010001010100100110010011111010101001010000110100111010010100011010110100111011101110010011110011110 0110101010 1010010101010 0100001001001010 1010010001010 1111010001100 10111101010 1010100001010001 1010001100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 111 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 19
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, and, that, he, in, said, to, his, be, not are repeated.
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