This is an analysis of the poem The Everlasting Gospel that begins with:
The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision’s greatest enemy. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddeeXeddff abaAddEeaaccddaaddffaaaaddaaggcchXeeXbaahhXXiiffddjjeekkk abccaAllEeXbccmmffnnggddggggdgggooiieeppccXeffccffkkeeccddeeggeXppcciiddabhhppaallaaXdccccnnffccffggiiaaff abll hhccccXXccddiiiiXXgXgghheeccqqaaEeddffiikkiiabaaabddoohhrrXXiiaaccddhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,57,106,4,144,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011111 011010100 11011111 11011101 10010111 110100001 11011111 11011111 10111100 110101001 11010011 01010011 11010111 11111111 11010101 110100100 11011101 11010001 11011101 1110101 11010101 11001010 11011111 11011001 010000101 11010111 10010011 1010001 1110101 1110101 11101001 11110101 1111111 11110011 0101001 01010101 10010110 010011101 10110101 11010101 111010001 11000111 11111101 01010001 01001101 11110001 110101001 010100010 01011101 11010011 1101110 1010100 100100101 11011001 110100111 1100010001 110100111 01001101 010011101 01110101 10010111 11010101 01010001 10010111 10110101 11011001 01010101 11110001 111100101 110110111 001010101 11010101 110100100 10110101 11010001 11011101 11010001 11110111 10010101 11010101 111011010 101110 10011100 01010101 11110101 11110101 11001001101 11011001 10111111001 1100101001 010110101 1101011001 110100101 111011101 1110100111 11101000101 0100111001 1010100101 10111001001 1110100101 100011101 10110101 101000100 01110101 100101111 111001111010 101011101010 11001001001 10101100100 111010101 11111101001 11010110110 1100010011010 11010110100 11100110101 111010000101 10110100101 1111000001010 1010100110 01110100 10011111 11110111 01010101 11110101 0101010 11010101 01010101 01000101 11100101 01101001010 111101011 11000101 1110101111 11010111 1001010 111101001 100100101 00011101 10011001 1001001010 1000101010 111100101 10100101 011001011001 110100100 11011011 1101001001 11011001 0101010001 11010101 010101101 11011100 0101001001 11011011 11011011 10011101 11001101 11011110010 110101010010 11110101 0010001 1011001 1110101 1010101 1000101 1000101110 011011010 01000101 11011111 10100111 01011101 01110001 010100101 11100101 11101101 111001010001 101100101 01011101 1101000100 110000010 111111010 110100101 01011101 010100111 01011100 11011100 01010001 10110111 1110101 11101111 1111010 010010010 010111010 110101111 01010101 11111101 1101111 11010111 01011110 01010011 111000100 10010101 1010111 0010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 11010001 11110101 11011101 11011001 01110111 101110101 11010101 111011010 11110111 110110101 01000101 010101100 11010101 111101001 11010101 01010011 11110111 11110101 01001101 01010100 1001000101 11011101 1101101 110100100 01011001 1011001001 110111001 101010001 101100101 110100101 100110101 11010101 11011101 010100101 10100101 1010101 011001101 01010101 11110101 1010101 1110101 1111101 0110111 1010101 1100101 010111011 1101101 11010111 00010000 0111010 110001001 110101001 10011111 1010111 11010101 0110110 1111111 110101011 1111101 11100111 11110101 0010101 1010111 1010101 1011111 010101011 1101111 1010111 111101 1111101 11011111 10101001 11011101 1100111001 1110101 1110111 11110111 1010111 11111110 1011101 1110111 11010111 11011101 11011101 11110111 11011100 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 10110111 11111100 01100100 10011001 11101000 11010101 11110101 11011100 11010011 10110101 11111111 11110101 110100101 00101001001 1100100101 1000100101 1010101001 1110100100 01010101011 1110101101 1110101101 110111101 11101101 110100101 01111001 11101001001 111100101 110111101 10011010110 11111110010 111 111010011 10110011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1790
- Average number of words per stanza: 316
- Amount of lines: 330
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; read, and, d, his, he, devil, i, to, s, thy, tho, you, love, twas, canst, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, the, he, thou, tho, you, twas, canst, and are repeated.
The author used the same word was at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase in connects the lines.
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- summary of The Everlasting Gospel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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