This is an analysis of the poem Book I - Part 06 - Confutation Of Other Philosophers that begins with:
And on such grounds it is that those who held
The stuff of things is fire, and out of fire ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,28,26,117,107,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001111 010101011010 0101010111 1000110011 0111001101 1100010111 01010101001 1111111101 1010010111 0101011011 1101001101 11010010101 1111111100 01010101111 11110000111 01010100101 11011010101 0101000101 1001110101 1110110101 1011010111 1101000101 0101010111 0101010101 11010011111 1111110001 1001011101 1011011101 1101011111 1001110101 1111011101 11011111001 1001011101 11010011101 1011011110 1001110101 101110101010 1111010101 01011011011 1101010011 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110101 0101110101 1101010101 11011111010 1111010101 0111011100 111011101 1110010001 1101110101 11010110101 1101110111 01011101010 0111110011 1101010101 11010101010 0111001011 1101010101 01010111101 1101000101 11010101010 110111001010 0011010101 01011111110 1111010011 01110101101 111010101 0101010101 1111110101 1101100101 01110101111 01010101010 1111010111 1111001101 0101011101 1101110111 1101110110 01010101011 0111010101 11001110101 01011011100 0101010101 1100110101 001101101001 11010110101 1101000101 11010111001 10011001111 101110101 0101010011 0110110001 1101010101 11110101011 0101111111 10011011111 1110000100 1111010101 1101011111 01011100101 1001011111 11001010101 11010100001 0001011101 1001110101 01001110001 10010101010 1001110101 0101111111 0101010101 1101011101 01001010111 0101010101 1111010011 10111101111 0101000101 1101110101 1111010101 111110000100 1101111101 11100001101 11110100111 0101001101 11001000111 01011101010 1101001100 1100011111 0111011001 1011000101 1101010101 1111010001 11110110011 01100010111 1011011011 0101010111 1101001101 1110110001 010110100101 0110110101 0111010101 01111111001 1101110011 1101000101 1101110100 0111010101 0101100101 1101010101 1111110101 1111010101 0101101101 10011000101 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010001 1101010101 0111110101 1100010100 11010001101 0101010111 01010011010 11010101101 0101010111 111100001110 0011111001 1101111101 0011000101 1101010001 1101000111 010101001010 1101010101 1101001100 11110100100 0111000101 01010 11101 010100101111 11001000101 1101010100 1101010111 11100010101 0101110101 1111110101 01110100101 10010001001 1011110111 11010011110 1111000101 1101010101 1101011101 10011110101 100111101 010101000 1111000101 1111010110 1001010101 10011101010 1111000101 11011101101 1001011111 10000100001 1010111000110 10111000101 1101110101 01010101010 0101010101 1001010100 1110110111 11111101110 1101111101 0101011101 1101010111 11010101111 11011101110 0101010101 1001011101 1101111101 1101110101 10010100110 01010001001 1101011101 1111010111 1111010111 1011111101 11100110101 0101010111 1110001101 10010100101 01011011111 0101010101 1101110100 11011101001 1111010101 11001110101 1101100101 1111011100 01000010000 1111111101 1011000101 11010101100 1101011111 0010000111 10010100101 10011100111 1101010101 0101100101 1110010101 1010101101010 1001010101 110111101 11010010101 10001111101 0111111101 1111111111 01010100101 0111010101 10111010001 11111001010 1101010111 10010101001 1101110101 11101100100 110110110011 01011011101 1101000101 1110110111 0101110111 1011000101 1101111111 1111010001 0001101111 1011010001 11001111101 11000111001 1011010101 1111010101 0101010101 0101010110 0111010111 101001001001 10111010101 0101001111 0101011111 1101010101 10100100100 1010101 1101 0101010101 11000011001 11111110001 1111010101 01001010101 1111011101 0101001101 1111110001 1111010101 1101011011 1011010111 1111110101 1101110111 011100101001 01110111001 0101111111 1101100001 1011010101 10111101011 1111000101 1101111101 1011100101 10001011101 10100101110110 101001010111 101101101001 1101010100100 01110011001 1101010111 1001010101 11010000010 0101010101 11010101010 1111010101 1101010111 1101010111 10111010101 11000100110 0101011101 1101011101 1111010111 01010101110 1100110101 0101110111 1111001100 1111010101 01000010101 01011101100 01110010100 01111001001 0011011101 1101010101 1101110111 10010101001 11001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3043
- Average number of words per stanza: 532
- Amount of lines: 343
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, which, fire, and, of, some, he, to, all, no, from, things, earth, wood, what, themselves are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines four, things, earth are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Book I - Part 06 - Confutation Of Other Philosophers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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