This is an analysis of the poem Metempsychosis that begins with:
SUDDENLY to become John Benbow, walking down William Street
With a tin trunk and a five-pound note, looking for a place to eat, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbbadaaeceefdffXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100001110101101 0011101111010101 1010001000101 101110010 0101011101101 1010100101111 001101100101 1010001010 1001010100011101 10100101010100101 001000111001 1010100010 010101110011101 010110100110101 110011001101 01011101011 111010011110010101 1110110011000101 10011101001000 100001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1086
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word suddenly is repeated.
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- summary of Metempsychosis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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