This is an analysis of the poem Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 18 that begins with:
Ten men eat at a table but two dogs will contend for one piece of carrion. A greedy person will still be hungry with the whole world, whilst a...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011100111101000101001010001110010100101011111111000100101111010 10010101011 10100100010110101 1010110111011 11101011101 101001100 1101001111 011001011101001 101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 78 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, of, be, fire are repeated.
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