This is an analysis of the poem Book Iii - Part 02 - Nature And Composition Of The Mind that begins with:

First, then, I say, the mind which oft we call
The intellect, wherein is seated life's ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbccdedcdbfgfdeafcXhbhidjdXjfdkkjjajhjjkcXXfjfljamjmcdbgajcdiadffejlbbcfjbcnfkl XjfofejdjjjjpbcdbjcacdbcjqjdcjdaqdmccleXdjqpfraebhbdfghidjXfjdfdfajddXlajkeldgggsacjbjkhdbbdbtjfdjdleagfep ldrmjmeqbnakqcdqhdjmlahajkaaadhmbddXbjcchcbbojXfctngcnnglfccjgkgcj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 81,106,76,30,26,58,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011111 0101010101 1011000111 0111111111 0111010111 11010011110 1001011101 110000110111 1101110101 01011101001 01011111011 1101110111 0101011101 1001001011 1001010011 10110101001 1101010101 01000011101 0101010111 0111010101 01111111010 0101110101 1101010101 0101110111 100101001010 11001110101 1101101101 1001110101 010101010000 1001011101 1011110101 1111110001 1111001101 1101010111 01010011101 1111111100 0111101101 1101110101 0101110001 1110110101 1101011110 0101010111 10111111001 11001010011 010111010000 1001010101 0101110101 0111110111 10000110001 1011010 111 1111111010 1111010001 11110101010 0111011101 1111000101 1101110111 0100011111 0101010101 0101010101 1101110001 0101110111 01011110101 11011111011 1111110101 10101111101 1101010101 00110110001 1101010101 1101011101 1101011111 11011100111 0111011101 10010101010 1101011101 1101110101 1111010001 1100110001 111100111 11110000111 0101110101 1011001000 11001111000 1111010101 0101010101 0100101101 0111111100 1111110111 1111111101 0010010101 11111001001 1001101101 00101011101 1101011101 11001010101 1101110001 11010000101 11001101001 0111100101 1011010101 0011101101 1110110001 01001001101 1101010100 1001010011 1101010101 11011001110 1111010001 1111010101 1111011101 1110111101 0101101101 1001010111 110000100010 1100010101 110011101010 1101010111 0101111111 1011110111 1101010111 10010111000 0101110101 01111011110 1111010100 110000100111 0101001111 11001010011 0101010101 1111111101 0101110101 0101010001 1101001101 11010101010 11100011111 1111011101 00110101001 1001111101 1101110101 11010100101 1101010101 1011101101 0101010001 0101111101 1111000101 1111001100 0001010111 0101010111 01011100101 1111110001 11001110101 0101010100 0011000111 0101100111 1101010001 01001011101 0101000101 1101010101 1110010101 10010111101 11110110001 1101001101 1001010111 11001010111 0111010111 1001110111 1101011101 0101011101 1100011101 11001010101 1110011101 111000100 1111111101 1101010111 0101010101 1111010111 0101111111 11010010111 0101010111 0111000101 1010110111 1011101111 1110010101 1111011101 01010101001 1101110101 1101111001 1101000111 1011000111 1110011101 1101110101 01110111110 1111110101 1110011010 0100011110 01010010100 0101010101 11010011011 1001010101 01011010101 11010111010 0101110101 1111010101 1101110100 0101010100 0101010011 110100101001 11010111110 10110011101 1101010101 1101110111 01000111001 0111010100 0101111101 0101010101 1101010101 11010100101 1111011111 1101010101 11010111010 0101010011 0100110001 1111011101 1101011000 1001011101 11001110001 11010100111 1111010011 11001000101 1011110101 1001010011 1101111101 1101010101 01111101010 110010101100 01001010101 1011011101 11001110101 01010111101 1101011101 11011010101 100001100101 1011101101 1111010001 1111110101 1111010101 1101010001 0111010001 0111011101 10110010111 11111100101 0101110111 01111100111 11110010101 01010101010 0101011111 0101010111 0111010101 10010101001 1010010001 1100010101 1101010101 1111110101 010011010001 11010111010 0101011101 1101011101 1101010011 1101010101 01110101010 1001111101 01010100111 0101010101 0110011001 110010000101 11000101101 10010101010 11010111100 01010010111 0100100101001 0101111101 10011111011 11010011011 0101110101 1111100101 1010000011 1111010101 10111001011 101100101010 10111000101 1110001100 0111111111 111101101 111011100 01010011101 1111110101 1101011101000 1100110001 1101110100 0111010101 1101111011010 100111001101 1100011101 11010101110 1011110111 0111111101 0111110101 0011010101 1001100111 11000010011 11001101110 11010011001 0111110111 0011101101 1100110111 1101010101 0101011111 1010110101 1111000101 11001110101 0101011011 11001100011 110101100 01011110111 1010001101 01001101110 10110010111 10110110101 1101101101 1101011111 0111011101 0101010011 1111010101 1101101101 1101010111 0111100111 0101111101 1101110100 1101110111 0110011111 0100010100 111011001 1001111101 11010100101 1101111111 0101010101 1101010101 1101011111 1101010111 1000010101 1101001101 1110110101 1101010001 1101010111 1011011111 1101110111 1101100001 0100010111 0101000101 1111110101 0101011101 0101000111 0101110001 1101110101 10101011101 1001011101 11010010101 0101010101 10101010101 0101011001 10011101010 1011010101 11110110110 1101010101 1101011101 10110010101 1111010111 1101011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2771
  • Average number of words per stanza: 492
  • Amount of lines: 377
  • 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; and, of, itself, mind, to, more, its, heat, thence, soul, not, nor, our, that are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines air is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Book Iii - Part 02 - Nature And Composition Of The Mind;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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