This is an analysis of the poem Book V - Part 03 - The World Is Not Eternal that begins with:

And first,
Since body of earth and water, air's light breath, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadefgdhdgijkdlgkmmcdXfajmacnogjX agopb oXneaaenoXOomejooqrocpXorcodjloXdoaXfaXojojadarmfboXaaaagXoojmojiojcnadjomlaoiikaXicnaXXkioegXogieibjcXoocioamXniihXogfjqiainmobfafoanmigiojejmmijecdaaojnogXajomcXnodoimlnmbosiomgim lmcmjXgnggagXOljXmnmijXgjmobael
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,5,181,51,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 11001110111 11001000011 0101010010 1111110001 1011000101 1001110001 1100110111 0111001101 1100011111 0001000101 1101111111 01001010100 110110101 1101110101 1101010101 11011100010 1101011101 01101011101 1101011101 11110110101 1111010101 1101110101 0001010111 1101000111 1101011001 1101011101 1011010101 01001110101 1011010011 0101000111 01001010101 1101110101 0111010101 010010101 0101110101 1011001000 110101001 111101000010 1101010011 11011111101 0100110101 11010000101 1011010101 01000010101 1000110101 1101010101 1101011101 1011010101 0101110110 111100101 11001010101 010001101 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1011010101 1001100101 0111111101 010101 1101 1111011001010 01100001100 1101110101 0101111101 0001010001 1011010101 1011010111 111011010 1100111010 1000010101 1001011100 01011111 11 001010100101 0010011101010 01010100101 1011010101 010101110100 1111110101 0110011011 0101010111 1110010101 1100010101 0111010100 01010110101 10001001101 1111110101 0101000111 111001111 1001111101 1101011110 0101010111 0111010001 0101010101 0101110101 1100110001 010011110 11010100110 1101110111 0101110101 1100000101 10110101010 1111011111 1111110101 1011011101 1111011111 1101111101 01000 011001 111101011 1101010101 1101011101 1101101101 01010011110 1001010001 1111110101 0101110100 0101010101 0111101101 1101010111 0100110010 1001010100 0111010101 0111111101 10100001001 1101011100 000101011 0111101101 0101100101 0001010111 1111110001 11010100100 01011101100 0101100101 0111010110 10011010101 110001 0110 0110110001 0111111100 0101011101 1100011101 1101010101 1011111101 0101111111 1000010100 0101001101 0101100101 0100110111 110101100 100101111101 011011101 01010100101 1101010101 1101010100 1101000101 1001010011 1110010101 1101011001 0100010101 1010110110 01011100111 1001000101 010010001101 1101010001 11001010101 111010101 11001110111 0101010100 1110010101 0111110111 0101110011 1111001111 1101011111 11001010101 1111010011 1001011101 1001011100 0111000111 11010101 01 11001010101 1001110111 01010101110 01010010001 0110111101 1101010001 1101000111 1001110101 1001010101 1011011101 10110110011 1101010101 10101010100 01110110011 0101110111 1101010101 1101010111 0101000101 0101010101 1001110111 0101010110 1001010011 0101010101 11010101010 0101110101 01001100101 1001011001 11010111010 1101011101 1001011101 0101010111 1111011101 1101010101 10001110001 1111110111 1101010101 10010010101 1101000001 000101011 011101101010 011101001 010110101 1111101011 001111011 11011101010 0111011011 1001011111 1110000101 1101011101 11001010101 0101001001 1111110110 111100101 110010111110 0111010101 01101011000 1011011101 0101010101 0101010101 01011010100 1111010101 01000111010000 1111011101 11001010001 110110011 10110110101 10010010011 1001010101 0101010101 11000111010 1011111101 0101010001 11010011101 1101010110 10010011111 0101011011 0101010001 0111010110 11011100100 11001010100 010011101001 1101011111 010010100001 1101010101 1101010101 01010101010 1111010111 0101001101 0101111101 0111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2826
  • Average number of words per stanza: 498
  • Amount of lines: 272
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, things are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Book V - Part 03 - The World Is Not Eternal;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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