This is an analysis of the poem Retirement that begins with:
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee,
From strife and tumult far; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dada cded ffXf XgggXebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 011101 01110101 010101 01010101 011101 11111101 111101 10110101 110101 10111111 110001 11010011 010101 11010001 111101 101100011 110101 110100101 110111 11111111 010101 11010101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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