This is an analysis of the poem Book Ii - Part 02 - Atomic Motions that begins with:

Now come: I will untangle for thy steps
Now by what motions the begetting bodies ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaefbdghbceijekdelmgahnloppfbfddXkacqdebarbcdbndljfamaaacqgfcbadrbnfgdbhdfdbrlrdbdfhccafccehqbobbfagbedqcrqbcgfdaaadXbdrqcjfdcXcfXbmbeb fadcarfdsbdaarbqadacqXfaldfXeg ffmbbbahflqffajrdbbcfsgbdbXfbrabbcocpcddkfgrmkXbbdjfggerpfddpgbnpbafbamdfcbaX lflbrrq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 138,30,77,31,73,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110010111 11110001010 0011010101 11010010101 1111110100 1101010100 10001010101 11010011011 11010011111 1101110101 1101111111 1101111011 1101110101 01001010101 0101111111 0101110101 0011010111 0101010011 1101010111 1011010101 0100010111 1101010111 0101010101 0011010101 1101010101 11010 10101 10010010111 1011011101 01110000101 1111010101 10010010111 0101101111 1101010101 1101100011 1111010110 1101010111 1011110011 1101010001 1111010111 11010110101 0101111001 0101010110 0101110101 1101111101 1111110101 10001010101 1011011101 11010001010 0100100001110 10000011101 1111010111 1101110101 11001010101 1111010011 010110101 1111110001 1101000101 1011010111 0011 0111010101 1011011101 11111101001 11001100101 1101000101 1101000101 1101010001 1001110101 11001110111 01110101010 0111011011 0111010111 01010100101 010100101001 11001100101 10010010011 0101010111 00110010011 01010001001 01010011111 1101110101 1101011101 0101010111 11110110110 11110100001 1001110101 1101000101 1011010101 11111100101 1101010101 1101000101 10110010101 1111010001 0001010101 01001011101 1111010101 11010010010 0001010111 1010110011 1101010101 11001001001 1111010011 0111010111 1101010101 11110 01101 1111010111 10010011101 01001010101 0111000111 1101010101 010011000001 1111011111 1101011101 1101111111 1111010101 0101011101 0101100101 010110111001 10010001100 0011010101 1111010101 1111111101 0101111011 0111010101 1101000101 1001011101 1101110101 1001100101 1101010100 1101110101 01010001010 11011010100 1001010101 1001110101 0101111110 1011010111 0101110101 11010101010 11001110100 11010100011 0111010101 11010100101 10010010101 1111110101 1100010101 11110010011 0100110101 1100010011 1011110111 1101110001 1100110101 1111101100 0011000111 01011000111 1001111001 1101110001 10010010011 10010011110 01010111000 1111011111 10110010001 1101111111 1011110101 0101101101 1101110101 0111000111 0110010101 1001010111 0101011111 1111000101 0100110101 0101001101 1101010000 1101011101 0101010101 0101001101 1101010001 0101010101 1101110111 11110011111 1101110001 0101110111 11010011111 0001101101 0101110001 00011100101 1011010001 11110101001 1101010100 0111010111 1011110101 0101010111 1001100101 01110110100 00111100101 11011101001 0111110101 0101010101 0111010111 1101010101 11010010101 0101011111 1011110001 1101011101 0101111101 0111010101 1101111101 0101010001 1011010111 1100110110 0111011101 0101011101 1111111101 0101110110 1101010101 1101101101 1100010111 11010101101 0101010101 1111101111 01001110001 1100111101 0101010101 1111010101 11110101010 11010010011 11011100001 1101110101 0101110101 1111100101 010111111010 111101 0101 1111010100 0101111101 1101110101 0101010011 0101010101 111100111 1001111111 11011010001 1101011011 0101010011 1011010101 1001010101 01001011101 1101110001 01010110001 1001110101 0110110101 1101010101 11111101 11001100101 1101010101 1111011101 11110101001 11000010110 1101110101 0101010101 10010101001 0101110101 1111010101 11111100001 01010101001 1111010111 1010011111 0101010111 11001111101 1001110111 1011110101 11001010101 1101110001 1111111111 0111111111 1101010111 0101110111 1001100101 0110101001 0111110111 010010010001 11011101010 10101101001 1001000100 01111101010 1111010111 010111111 111110111 0101111101 0101111001 1101110111 01001010101 1111110101 0111010101 0101010111 1111011001 1101010101 01010111001 01011101010 111101010100 0101110001 1001001101 110111110010 1101001111 0110100101010 1101111101 1100110101 10010111010 0100110101 1101011101 1110000101 0101010101 0111010111 1101010100 1110010101 1111110101 1101110101 10010101111 1011001101 1010100101 10011010101 1101011111 1101010101 01001110111 1101010111 1101111101 1111110101 1111010101 1101010001 1011010101 0111001101 01110000100 0111010111 1101010111 110011001101 1110111101 1101111101 0101010101 1101010101 1111000101 1001010101 111101011110 01110100101 01011011011 1101110111 1001100101 11010101101 1001010111 110011111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3074
  • Average number of words per stanza: 542
  • Amount of lines: 349
  • 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; to, and, of, in, one, we, but are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, and, they, the, but, whence, nor are repeated.

    The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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