This is an analysis of the poem From ‘paracelsus’ that begins with:

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TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXcdefXXaXgg X XgghhaijhkaghbjfiigbldgilkdXbXegibhedlabXlbcgkhhhgcelge
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,55,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1001010111 0101101101 1011010011 1101010101 1011011100 0011010101 01001010101 1011110101 10010100101 1001010101 1001010101 010001 1 11110101000 1000011101 11111101001 110010101001 001010110111 11011111001 01001110101 01110100110 0101011101 1101000101 0111010101 0101010101 0100010101 0101001111 10011101110 01010110101 1011010101 0101110101 1000111001 0101110101 1000111101 1101011111 0111010101 1001010111 0101011111 1001001111 1101001111 1101100101 101110101010 10010100110 1100011101 0101110101 1011000101 0111011101 1100010101 0101110101 010101111 0111010101 11111001101 0101011101 1101010001 0101010101 1101111101 0101011101 0101010111 0101010001 0100010001 0111011111 01010100101 1000011101 0001001101 01010001010 0101110101 1111110111 0100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 770
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; what, in, whom, of, some are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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