This is an analysis of the poem Meditation Twenty that begins with:
Philippians II: 9: Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him.
View, all ye eyes above, this sight which flings... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcbdd eacXdd efXfee bdXdcc gagace dfdfcc hXhXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111001101100101 1111010111 10010011001 0101111101 0101010101 0101100001 1101101101 0101100110 0101110101 1101010101 10010010010 011111111101 1101010001 10100100101 11001010101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 0100100101 101110101001 0101011001 1111010100 0101010001 1011010101 1010011011 1011000101 0101010100 1111111101 1011111001 1111110111 1101010100 1101011111 1110011101 11010101001 1110111111 1111001101 1111110111 1111111101 1111011111 1111001101 1101011110 11111011001 0111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 43
- 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; sing, praise, i, my, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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- summary of Meditation Twenty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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