This is an analysis of the poem Transfiguration that begins with:
Mysterious death! who in a single hour
Life's gold can so refine ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe gccg ghhg fddf iggi jeej kcck kllk bbbbXjllj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011001010 111101 111101 11010001010 1001010100 100101 0001001 11010100111 1101011111 010011 111101 1101110011 1111010111 110101 010001 1100110011 0101110111 110011 010101 0101010101 1111111101 1100101 111001 0101010111 1101010111 110101 101101 1100110101 0111110111 110011 001011 1100111111 0101011111 101101 010101 11010001011 1101111101 100101 110001 1101010111 1101010101 100101 010101 0101010101 1011010101 010101 010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Transfiguration;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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