This is an analysis of the poem Book Ii - Part 04 - Absence Of Secondary Qualities that begins with:

Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil sought
Look thou perceive, lest haply thou shouldst guess ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXefadghigjfakgdeXlj amkhaclXeacacajgAckfXcldkhhcnoochgbnponaoapnkbcadcahXb aaXeiXecaccgacaf cggkkgaXjccXchggehea beaalcgeaccbccjqadc ckgrkclfcchcesaaacXkf qafebeaembqcgcghescfcXabcbqcojcaA gbcXabcgqalcgebXccgkc hcq aefhafqqdgfhhoaqeggeqgqscbjkmhaclXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,54,16,20,19,21,33,21,3,38,7,9,38,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011111 1101110111 1011010011 11000110101 0011110111 1101011101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1010010111 01111100001 0011011101 1101111101 0101110011 1101110110 1101110101 1110010111 1111001101 0101110001 1101111100 10001010 111 1101001101 11001010101 1100 1010011001 11010011101 1111000101 1101010101 1101011101 100010101010 0101110111 110001 1101 01110001011 0101010001 0111010101 1101101100101 0111010101 1101011111 1111001101 11110111001 1001010101 11010111100 0101010101 0101011101 1101110111 00010110001 1101011101 1101111101 1011100101 0101010001 11010101110 11010101110 1001011001 1101010111 0101110101 11010011101 01001110101 101100101001 1101000100 1111010001 1011011111 1001110100 0100111101 01010010001 11001011111 01010010101 1101011001 11010110001 1101011111 0101111101 1101110101 0101010001 0111000101 1011010111 1100110101 0111010011 1010011101 11011111010 1011010110 00101100101 0101010100 1111001101 1001110101 1101000111 1001000111 1101010001 11001000101 01011001001 1001011101 10011110101 0111110101 1101000101 0101110111 0101110101 11001110101 1101010011 0111000101 1100110101 11010101110 1101010101 11001101 01 11011101010 1101000101 1001011111 1111011001 011101001001 1111110111 110110011 1111010110 0101010111 0101110101 0111010101 1011011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110011 01010100111 1101010101 0111011101 100110001 11111001110 1101110101 1101110111 1111011101 1101111111 10010110011 1101110101 1111011011 0111110100 11110101010 01100010101 11011000101 1011000111 11001110111 11010011010 1111010001 0101011100 11001101101 1001010101 1111111111 010001011101 1101010101 0110110011 01001000101 10010110101 0101011101 0101000101 1111010111 0101110101 1111010111 0111111101 0101000101 01010001001 0100010110 1000010100 0111100101 0101110111 0101110111 1101010100 11100110101 11100001001 0100100111 1101110101 1101010101 11001111101 01001110111 0100100111 1111010101 11011110101 0111111101 110100101010 000100101101 00110101101 11010110011 1101111010 1101011101 0001001101 01001111001 11011101010 1111110101 10110110101 1011011111 1101011111 1111111101 0101010100 0101101001 01000100100 1011011111 11010010101 1111010101 0001011111 1011100101 0111010101 1011110101 1011011101 0101101101 1101100100 0100010011 1101010111 11101110101 11010101010 0100110101 1011011001 0101110101 1111110101 0101000111 0101011101 1111011101 0111111111 1101100101 1111110101 1101110001 1101010101 1101110101 1001111101 11010100101 0101010101 1101010011 01011001010 0101110101 11010101010 010010100011 00101111101 0111010111 0101111101 0101011101 0110010110 1101110101 1101010111 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 01011110111 1101010101 1101110101 10111101010 1111010111 1110000101 1001010101 0111110101 1111010101 0101011101 0101100101 0101010101 1101010001 1011111111 0111010101 1111010101 1101010111 1011011001 111000100 1101011011 0111010100 0101010001 1101010101 0111011111 1001010111 0101010101 1100110101 1001010101 1111110110 0101010101 1011110110 1101010101 01011100101 1111010101 0101010101 10010101010 10010101010 1111010101 1101111101 0101010101 100101100101 0101011101 0101011111 1011111111 01110100101 1111001101 11010100111 01010100010 11001010111 1111011101 01110011101 010110010 11011011100 1001011111 1101 011101 11001011111 1101110111 1011011101 1101101101 1101010110 0101111001 1101010111 1101010011 1011110111 1101010111 1111010011 11011100101 11010101001 1100010011 0111000111 1011010101 0100110111 10010101001 11001011111 1101010001 1101010001 1011011100 1101110101 1011010101 1100010100 11110010101 1111011101 1011010111 0111111111 010110101 1011110101 1011110100 1101111110 0101010100 1111010011 1101010101 0101110011 1011110101 1101000111 010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1026
  • Average number of words per stanza: 181
  • Amount of lines: 331
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; hue, of, and, what, some, to, from, mortal, change, in, things, be, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, the, into, and, to 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines light, hue are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word sense at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Book Ii - Part 04 - Absence Of Secondary Qualities;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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