This is an analysis of the poem A Poem On The Last Day - Book Iii that begins with:

The book unfolding, the resplendent seat
Of saints and angels, the tremendous fate... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaccff ggaaddccffhh ffiiXaee hhff jjkkiillggmmhh ggcclliiccaaaa ddiiccaa aaXh ggffbbiiff ddffffaaf ddiiffeeffddii ggaabbbbaa llffiiaa ddbbeeiiiill eennaakkffcc ffiiiigg ooaadX ppiiddqqkkff ddggrrkk bbddmmkkiiXg aaddrX eecc iihXff llddccooqqcc i
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,8,4,14,14,8,4,10,9,14,10,8,12,12,8,6,12,8,12,6,4,6,12,6,20,8,8,8,4,16,6,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101000101 0111000101 0101010101 1101000101 1101011101 0111110101 1101110101 10010011101 1101011101 1111010101 0111110101 1011000101 101001010101 1101000101 0101110101 11001010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101011101 1101111101 1111010111 1110010101 1101010111 1101010101 01010100101 0101010101 1111110101 1101111101 1101110101 0101011101 1111110101 11110100111 0101110010 1101110101 01011100111 1101010001 1101110101 11001010001 1001010111 0101010011 1101110101 1101010011 11010010111 11010111101 0101110101 1101011111 1101110111 1111011101 11011100101 0101000101 0111000101 1011000111 1101010101 0101110001 11011100001 11010101001 11011100101 111100001010 0101011101 0110110101 0011010111 11011100101 0101010101 1101010111 11011100001 1001010001 1111010111 10101001101 1011110111 10010001001 11010101001 1001110111 1111010111 1111110101 0101110011 1110010001 1101000101 1001010101 11110011110 0110011101 1111010101 1101110101 1101110101 11010111001 1101110101 11010010101 1011100101 1101000101 1111010111 1001010101 110111010111 0101001101 10011100101 0101010101 1011010101 11110101001 0101110111 1101010111 11010001 0101011101 1011000101 110010110101 0101010101 11011110101 1101010101 1001100101 0111101111 0101000111 10100011001 0101110001 1101010101 01011100011 11011010101 1001111101 0101110101 0111110111 0101010111 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101100101 1111100101 0111111001 11010001101 1101111101 110110110101 1111000101 11010101001 1101010001 11011100101 0101000101 111101011001 1101011011 1101011101 1101000111 1111011101 01011101001 1111010111 1001010101 11011101010 11010101010 1101011101 0101000101 11110101101 10101011101 11100100001 00010100001 0111010101 11010100111 1111010101 11110101001 1011111001 0101010101 0101110101 1111011101 1011011111 1101111101 1111110101 1101010101 1111101011 1101011100 1101010101 1001110001 1001010101 1101111001 1101010101 1101001011 1001000101 1100010100 0111011111 1111111101 1011111101 1111011101 1001111001 1101001101 11101001101 1101011101 1001010101 10001110101 1001110001 0101110001 1011111101 1001111101 1111110011 1111000101 10110001010 11010011010 0101011111 1111010001 1111010011 1111110011 11010110101 1101010101 1111011011 1001010001 0111110101 1110010011 1111110101 1111110101 1101111010 1001110100 0101111111 0101011101 1111010101 1010110001 11111100010 11010111100 1101110101 1001000101 1111011001 1101010101 0101010101 10010100001 01010010001 01010101010 0101010101 1101010101 01000110101 01010011001 10100010001 1101010001 0101010101 10110101001 0101000101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1110101001 1101010101 1101001101 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101001101 010100011001 1101100101 1101010111 10100010101 11000101010 11010101110 1101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 01011000101 1011010101 10101010111 1001110101 11010001001 1011001101 1101010101 0101001101 1101110101 01001010101 1111011111 1101010101 1101110101 01011100101 1101010101 01001000111 1111111101 10101001001 1111010111 01001000101 1101110101 11110110001 11010010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101110101 111100101001 1001010101 11011100101 11011100101 1101010011 10110000101 11100111111 0100011111 1111010101 11110001001 01011101010 10010010101 11011101011 0101011101 1101110011 1111010101 1101010101 11110001010 01000011010 0110111010 0101010111 1101111101 01000100100 1101010101 11111010101 1101000101 1101011101 1111010111 1101001101 11110100100 1111010001 10110110101 1101111111 11010001001 1101110101 1010011101 1001010011 11110101001 1111010111 1011010011 0011010101 10001111001 10101011101 1101000101 11110001001 1101010101 1101111101 1111011101 1111110101 11110111101 1011010111 11001110001 1101011101 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 328
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, she, and, how, or, i, my, no, down, me, from, still, to, be, all, thousand, when, with, that, where, so, for, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, she, and, whose, down, when, all, so, the, for are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase worth connects the lines.

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