This is an analysis of the poem Concerning The Philosophers Stone. ( Alchemical Verse .) that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbXXXcXdeeXXaXXXfXXXgaXehhXfXgXXiiXaXXXXeXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXddebbXXggXXXgjjkkXeXXhhbbXXXXXXhXXXXXjjllXXlXfXeXXXXXkXggddaafXXXccjjffXXbbffeeXXkkffXXXXXXXhXXXXeXddllXXhXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,176,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001100 1110100 1100100 1001010 11110110 11011101 01010010 01100110 10100010 01011101 0010110 01010001 01010111 11011101 01101010 110001100 01010010 1001100 101101010 011001010 010111 01010100 10101010 0110001 0110100 0110100 1001101 01010101 011111 1101101 11001001 01110111 11001000 01110101 00101100 1111100 111111 01011101 110100010 1101010 01110100 11010100 01011010 01011010 0101101 0110101 0101110 11010111 11110111 010010101 10010111 01011101 11101100 11110110 111011001 11100110 101000 1001000 100100 1100100 0101000 1111000 0101000 1110100 01001001 11010100 0101001 11011101 00100101 0110101 11010101 110101100 010111100 1101001 11010101 11111 011110 11010000 0101010 01101 11011001 0101101 11010111 01011010 01010001 01101011 1111111 10011111 11110001 11011101 11001011 01111000 011001100 011010 11010100 101001001 10011111 11011101 1101110 01011010 11110110 01001111 1001011 110110001 101101 10101010 01110010 111101000 01100100 1100100010 01110001 10011001 10011101 10011001 01110010 01010000 0110100 01010010 11010010 01100111 10001010 0111001 11011101 1101011 11010111 10010100 1101100 110111 1101111 1101101 11001011 0111001 01010101 01011101 11110111 00101001 0010001 11010011 01111111 11111101 01001001 100110110 10011010 01110101 11011101 01110100 011100 0101011 10110101 01010101 10111101 1100110 01010100 1111111 0100100 1101111 10011100 11011010 1011101 11010111 00110111 0101101 11110010 10011001 1010101 11110101 0001100 11000110 11110010 0101011 1001100 11110101 01111111 10010001 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2777
- Average number of words per stanza: 512
- Amount of lines: 178
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, that, to, and, for, thei are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , the, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines , recorden, wise, wene are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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