This is an analysis of the poem Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 04 that begins with:

I saw a schoolmaster in the Maghrib country, who was sour-faced, of uncouth speech, ill-humoured, troublesome to the people, of a beggarly nature and...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aX X XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011000101011101011111001000010001001010110111010101010010011100101010100100100100111010100010010010010011010111101010111010101000010111110100101110100110100110100111001100000101011111101101011101001100100110101011110111110110010001101000101101100111011000100010110101011011101010110010010101 001101000100 01001110001 111001100111111101101101010111110101011101001110101111111101110010010111010000111111111111010 010101001 1000101010 0001001010 0010000100101010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 460
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 232 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 40
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, in, had, i, he, their, that, his, who, people, heard, when, they are repeated.

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