This is an analysis of the poem The Alchemist that begins with:
Chant for the Transmutation of Metals
Sail of Claustra, Aelis, Azalais,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XabcXXXcddeXFXgXbffXhfXFffhfijdXbcceikXjfifabfblclcXdXDXfgdXffXikXXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,68,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000010 101010100 11101011 1110100100101 1011 101010100 10010100 1011001 10101110 1010101 10110010 1010011010 10100100 010010 1010100 10101001 100010100 001101010 001010010 101010010 101010 00111010 001010110 101100101 010010 10001001010010 1010010 10100011001100 01100100010 1010011001100 10001 110010 100100100100 001001 00101001 001001 0010001010 001001000100 1 101010 101001 101010011010 10100101000100010 0011010 101011001 1010010010 101001010 11010 1010001101 110110101 1010010011011001 01 100111100 10101001 1010100 10010 1011111010111 10010010 100101110010 101010010010 100100100 11011010 1011010010 10100100 100101100010 11001000001 10100 10101000 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1178
- Average number of words per stanza: 207
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, bring, light, gift, from, out, let, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, bring, from, by, let are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines water is repeated).
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- summary of The Alchemist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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