This is an analysis of the poem Englysh Metamorphosis that begins with:

BOOKE st.
WHANNE Scythyannes, salvage as the wolves theie chacde,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXbXbXXXXXXcXcdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXfefeXXeXXXXXdXXXXcaXXbXXbXbXXXXgXXXahXXXXXXcXbXbXXhXhXXdgXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 111,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 11001010111 10010101101 1011011001 11010100101 11100100101 10001010101 10110101101 1111100101 1111111101 11101101001 11010101010 01010010110 11010011010 1111010101 0101010111 1111111101 01011010101 1001000101 111101001 0101010110111 11001001100110 1011010111 10110001010 1001101111 0111011111 01110100001 11010100111 1110110101 11001010101 110101110101 10101101010 10010100011 010101110110 110101011 1001010110 0111010100 1001011110 1101010110 11111100111 1101101110110 110100011 0111001111 1010010011 1101010101 10010010111 1010000110 10001000101 1111011100 0101010101 0101011011110 01010101001 11011000011 1101010111 11111111001 1111010101 1010010111 011001101 1001001001 1111011101 011001001001 0101010111 1101010011 011011101 101101111 010101101 01100101101 1110011001 011101110111 10111001111 110101111110 011001011 1101101001 01010001101 11000110110 1101010011 101101101011 1101011101 10010000101 1100011011 11010111001 1101010001 1011010001 110110110 0101110101 01010010101 1101100101 0110111001 10010111011 101111101 10101010101 010110010001 0100110111 1011010111 1010010101 1011011110 0111010101 1101010100 1001111101 1111010101 111100111001010 010111101 011001110 1111100101 0101010111 00110101001 11101111 10011011001 1111010101 1111011001 010101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 856
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; theie is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Englysh Metamorphosis;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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