This is an analysis of the poem Fragment Of A Meditation that begins with:

Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtieth
Station where time reverses his light heels...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaadcecd Xffebd egffg hbfhbbbeded ihihjf jebke efhXefddledllfmfbmX ljjnejoedddkdkd pbpbqnblppXloXepqfpoaXa hhbphbpbpbbmmXrlr
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,5,11,6,5,19,15,23,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010010100 1011010011 0111110101 1101001111 1100010001 11010010101 111001011 1111010001 10111001001 1100001101 000100001001 10001011101 1000110101 0101110101 11001001111 1111010001 1100011101 1101111101 0101010101 1001010001 010100001001 01001101001 0101010101 010110111 1011010101 010011001010 00111111000 1100101010 1111110101 1101110101 01010110101 1101010001 1111100101 1010110011 1011010101 11010011101 110100100100 001011 1111 10110010101 10001011100 0000110011 01110000101 0001001101 1101110101 1000110101 11011011100 1011011111 0101110001 1001010001 1101110011 10011111 11001000101 1101110101 1110011011 00110011001 1010111100 011010011 010110111 0110001111 0101101101 1001010100 0101010111 1000111011 1111111101 0101111100 011110010 001001011101 0011110001 01001000100 1101100101 100111011 1101010101 1111111101 0101111011 1001011111 0101110101 1001010100 01010001100 01110100101 011010100 101100011010 1101010100 1001000101 1001110111 0100100111 1101011101 010111101 01101010111 0011010001 0110010100 01100100010 1010010101 11001001110 10000110101 01010110001 1101100101 100111101001 10010010101 0100101101 0111110001 00100011001 0100100100101 101010100101 010011101 1101000101 1010100101 0101010010010 1011111100 00110001001 10100010101 0110110101 1101011001 01101110 10010010101 1011110001 0110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 477
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, thirtieth, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, the, of are repeated.

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  • summary of Fragment Of A Meditation;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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