This is an analysis of the poem The Book that begins with:
Eternal God! Maker of all
That have lived here since the man's fall:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdeecc bbbb ffbbggcdhhXeeeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011001 11111011 01010011 11011111 11010101 11110111 01111111 11010101 10111111 10011101 11011011 10010101 11010111 10010101 11010111 01111101 11111111 10011111 010010011 11110111 11111100 11111110 11110111 11011101 110100101 11011111 11111101 01010111 11011101 10011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Book;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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