This is an analysis of the poem Book Iii - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal that begins with:

Now come: that thou mayst able be to know
That minds and the light souls of all that live ...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,24,17,39,44,11,30,49,24,202,10,59,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1732
  • Average number of words per stanza: 312
  • Amount of lines: 518
  • 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; that, and, of, it, in, air, to, be, nor, its, with, we, hath, all, would are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, that, and, is, nor, for, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word again 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 be, soul are repeated).

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  • summary of Book Iii - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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