This is an analysis of the poem Poem of Wisdom that begins with:
Because of its lack of wisdom,
A snake drinks milk ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacbXccX dedeXdeXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010 0111 10110 0100110 01110 1101 0010010 100010 10011010 10111101 110010 111011101 11001 1110 11111 11010 1111100101 11 1101010 010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wisdom is repeated.
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