This is an analysis of the poem Tekel that begins with:
WHEN on the West broke light from out the East,
Then from the splendour and the shame of Rome-- ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccb dedeffg hahagga aeaehhe ghghiih ahahggh bfbfaaf jgjgkig ififddX ihihffX hlhliil eaeakka fhfhhhh ebebeeb ieieaae dgdgddX afXffff dhdhiiX ihXhffh kdkXhhX aaaabba mfmfaaf eeegdnX dfdfggX mXmdhhX ahXhaXh ibibmmb heheooe kmk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1001010101 0101110111 1101000101 01001010111 0101110111 0001010111 0111110111 1101110101 1111111110 0111010111 0101011101 1001000111 1001010111 10111111001 1101011111 0011010101 11001010111 1101110101 00101000100 1111010111 1111010101 0101100101 11001010111 1101110111 1011110101 0111110101 0111010101 1101010111 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1011000101 1100010001 1011110101 1100010101 0101111101 1101010101 1111011111 0101010001 1111110110 1101110101 1100010101 1110010011 1111110101 0101011111 01010010101 1101011101 1101111101 10110010101 0101010101 1101110101 10011000100 1111010101 1101010101 1111010011 1001010111 1111011111 1111011101 1111011101 1111111101 011111111000 0111111111 1001110111 0001000101 0111011111 100111111 1101010101 1101110111 1101010111 010111101 1101001101 10110111001 1101011101 1111011111 1101110100 11001011101 1001110111 1101010101 1111010101 11010001010 01011111010 11010010111 1111111101 1101010101 1011010101 0111010101 0100110011 11010100101 1011001101 1111111101 1111010101 1111111101 1101010111 1111111110 1100110011 1111110101 0111110111 1101001001010 1001010111 111101010 11010010101 0111110101 11110101110 1111010101 1101100111 1101111101 0101010101 1111010110 11101111111 0111100101 1011011110 1101010110 11011110101 11110100101 1111010101 1111110101 10010101101 1100100101001 1101000101 0101011111 1101011101 1111010111 1111011101 1101011110 1011010101 1111010101 0101111110 0101110111 1001110111 1011010111 1111101101 01010111110 11010101111 11011101010 1101011110 0101010101 0101111101 0111110111 0101010101 1101010001 1111110111 1101010101 01100010101 1111011101 1100011111 1101110101 0101111101 0101100111 1111011101 1101010101 1011011101 0101010101 1111110110 1111110101 1011100101 0101010101 1111011011 1110110100 11111101110 0101110101 11010100101 0111011111 1101110101 1111110101 1111111101 1111101111 1011011101 1001010101 1111110101 1101011001 1101010111 1101010101 1101011000 0111010100 11110101011 1101011101 1101000111 1101011111 1011110101 1111010101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010101 0101100101 1101110111 1111011101 11010100001 11001110011 1101011101 0101001101 0101111101 0111011101 1101011111 0111101101 1101011100 1111111111 1101010110 1001011101 1111011101 1001111101 1101100110 0111010001 1101110101 0101010101 0111111101 0101010111 0101010101 1001000111 01101011101 11001011100 0101010101 0101011111 1111110101 1111110101 0101110100 1011010111 1101110110 01011011010 0101111101 1111010111 1111111001 01001011101 0111110111 1001001111 0111110101 11110011101 0101010101 1101011111 0111010001 1111110101 1111111111 1111011001 1001010100 01110010111 1011011111 1101110111 10010101001 0111110001 1111001101 0101100101 1101011001 1011010001 1101010101 1001111111 1111001101 0100011101 1111110111 1111010011 0011111101 0101100101 10101110101 0101010111 1011101101 1011011101 0101011101 1110110011 1001110011 1101110101 1001001111 0101111101 1101110001 1001111111 1101110110 11011111100 1011010001 1111010111 0101000111 0101011100 0111110111 1100110111 1011010111 10010111001 0111010101 1101011101 1111110101 0111111111 01001111000 11011111101 1100010111 0101010111 0100111101 11110101001 0101110001 1011011101 1011110010 0101110101 01001010111 1100011111 1001010111 0101001101 1001011101 101011110111 1111010111 0111010100 0101111101 1111010111 1101010111 1111110101 1011010111 1011010011 0101001101 1111001101 1111010111 01110010001 0011010001 1001010111 1111011101 1111011100 1111111111 1101110101 110000100 1101011101 1011011100 01111110110 0101111111 11111111010 1011000101 0100010101 01011111010 1001111101 0001110101 1100010111 0101000101 0111001111 1001010100 1011110101 1001110111 0101011101 1001111101 1101011101 1101110011 1100010101 0110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 48
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 382
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, for, of, his, days, with, your, voice, grey, her, me, he, she, to, eyes, our, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, your, how, the, with, a are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Tekel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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