This is an analysis of the poem Transformations that begins with:
WHAT miracle was it that made this grey Rathgar
Seem holy earth, a leaping-place from star to star? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbccddXaaXXXeebbccffbbggbXhhffffffXXhhggeehXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010110110 110101010101 111101111000 1011010001001 110100110111 0101110100111 010100010101 111101010011 111111011100 101101011101 101101000101 11001101101010 1101010101001 111101010101 011101101001 111101011001 111101110101 110101010101 11110100100101 101100010001 1001110010101 110100110111 101100111101 110101000111 110011010111 11110101101101 111101010111 110101000100 0101100101111 1001010010001 101100110101 0100010001001 111101110101 101100110001 101100111111 110101001111 1111110011000 11111010100111 1101101100111 1111111101 101110010101 111111010011 1001010111001 111101111101 0100101100100 1101001000100 101111110101 101101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2554
- Average number of words per stanza: 445
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Transformations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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