This is an analysis of the poem Book Iii - Part 05 - Cerberus And Furies, And That Lack Of Light that begins with:

Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surge
Of horrible heat- the which are nowhere, nor ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbcXXdXefghhijidedkkacXleXahcciejXkhmjiiXdbXkjjXiXdjijmjnfjidXjcdcjkXbXeffjnihdjjdljindaccmfkjmgkhXkeXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 107,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10011000101 01001011111 0110100101 0100011100 1101010101 0111010001 0101000101 0101110101 11011110101 0011010101 1101011111 1100011101 1100110101 1111010101 0101010011 0100110101 011110100101 0110010101 0101111101 1101011101 0101110111 10101011101 1101011101 1101010101 0101110101 0101011010 1001000100 0100010101 01010101110 1101010101 1001010101 1001010001 1101010011 1110010001 011101001001 1101010001 1110001101 01010100101 0101100101 10100010101 11010101101 01010100110 11010010101 1111010101 1101011011 11110110101 10111101110 10101110101 01011100101 11010110001 1101110101 11001110101 110010101100 0101111101 1101110001 1101010101 1111010111 1100111111 1111110101 111111010110 01011001010 0111000111 1001011101 1010110101 110100101001 1001010101 01010010111 11111111011 1100110111 10001101001 1111010101 1101010101 1101111101 110101100110 1111010101 1111111101 1011110001 01001110001 01011101010 10010101001 1011 111101 1101010011 10101110001 010101111 0110010100 1101111101 01110001010 101101111010 1111011101 11011101111 0101100111 0101110101 11110110101 11011101110 0101110110 1111110101 0101110101 1101010111 1111110101 0100101101 1111110110 1101010111 0101110101 1111010101 1011010111 1111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4615
  • Average number of words per stanza: 832
  • Amount of lines: 107
  • 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; his, and, to, as, in, he, ever are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, add are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Book Iii - Part 05 - Cerberus And Furies, And That Lack Of Light;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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