This is an analysis of the poem Expositor Veritatis that begins with:
I Slept, and, waking in the years to be,
Heard voices, and approaching whence they came,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXX cdcddd efefXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000000 1101010111 1010000101 1100011101 10010101010 111100010110 1111110101 1101111111 0110010101 11000111001 01011101010 01110101010 1101010101 0101010101 1100110101 1001010101 01111101010 11010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Expositor Veritatis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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