This is an analysis of the poem Book V - Part 02 - Against Teleological Concept that begins with:

And walking now
In his own footprints, I do follow through ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccXcdecfgheihdfjhiegcgidggkghlcdmglnigdgiiecf nchamopchXiqgegefbjeedaXgdhjXi keilgdgiiglfXpigcfgkgdmcehghcdinlcgecgnaXfkdehcnncldcerebhaodiXXgmdccgflXXeXcfkhdfgieiaekhXjgigcmcigdelggaegdhgiehhenegggiXXhgchgoeslXgeoa XqrglldXlhhgXXsjeeefdggdgggiljql
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,30,138,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101 0011111101 0100100101 0100011111 11011001101 11001010101 11000011111 01010101011 0101011101 110001001 010101111 011101010 1110010011 1101011111 1111010011 1111100111 1101110101 0101010101 1011110101 010011111 1011111101 1111010101 0110010111 0101111011 0101010101 1101010101 10111100011 11011100011 10101110001 10110101110 0101010110 1010000111 1011010110 11010100101 1011010101 1101011111 1101110101 1101111111 1101011101 0111110111 1111110111 011001001001 0111011001 0101010101 1101010101 0101101110 1111010101 01001111101 1101110111 1011010001 0111010101 110111101 1101111101 1111010111 1001010111 1101110001 011101111 1001111100 0111010101 0101000111 1000101101 1101011101 11110011001 1001010111 0100010111 1100010111 0101011001 1101000101 1100010011 1011010101 0101011111 1101010100 01010000111 1001010101 1101010111 1011010101 01111110100 1101010101 11101101010 1001001101 1100100111 01011101010 100111011 1001010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 1101100111 10010001011 1011001101 1111001100 0110010111 10110101010 1001010101 11111101101 0101010011 110100100001 11110101010 0101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010001 0101010101 1101010101 1100111001 1101110100 110101101 1101111101 11001100101 01010110101 0111101100 11010101001 0001010101 110101101 00110011001 11010101001 11101011 1111110111 0111011111 1101010101 01010100110 010101011 111111110 0101110110 01110 11111 0101010111 0101000011 01010001110 1101011101 01101010001 11110010111 0101110101 1100011111 0101011101 10001101110 01110110101 1111010111 0101010110 1001110101 11001011000 1111110110 0101011101 1111001101 1011010111 11010010111 01010110011 11110000111 110010101 1011000111 01000111000 1110001001 0101010101 1111010101 1101111101 101101100 011110000010 0111011101 1111110001 111110111 11001111100 11110100111 1011010011 01011011101 1110010111 1101011111 010100101010 1001010101 0111110110 1101110101 1110010101 1101111101 1101110001 0101110001 1011001101 1111110101 1111011101 1001000101 1111110101 1101010111 1001010101 101110001 1001011011 01010010101 1111110101 0011011011 0101010111 1101010101 11000011100 11010111010 0001011011 0001011101 0101010101 11010111101 01010001111 00011001101 0101110001 00011100101 1011010011 11110101001 1101010100 11110111000 1001010001 1101110101 1100011111 1111011101 11001010001 0101010111 1111010001 10010010111 0101110101 101010101100 0100110101 1111010111 1001110101 0101110101 011010100101 11001110001 01010001111 00011110101 1101010101 1101110101 1001101001 1011011101 01110101001 0111011101 11011101111 0101010101 00101110101 10000100111 1101010101 10010100101 1101011001 01001111101 1111010101 0110010101 1001011101 1101011101 0101011101 1101111111 11111101010 110100010010 11010111101 0101011101 1111011101 1101010101 110100000111 10001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2662
  • Average number of words per stanza: 472
  • Amount of lines: 248
  • 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; and, what, in, three, to, of, nor, by are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, with, to, into are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Book V - Part 02 - Against Teleological Concept;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Lucretius