This is an analysis of the poem Damaetas And Ida that begins with:

Damaetas is a boy as rue
As ever broke maid's solitude....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddeeffgghhiiggbbeXeXbXeebbjjb f f g a gb b d dXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000111 11011101 110101010 101110010 11001001 11110111 11010111 01110011 00110111 00110101 11011011 01011101 10110101 11011101 10011101 11111111 100101001 110101001 11011101 11110101 11110101 11110111 100100111 10011110 11110101 11011111 10111101 01010101 11110101 11011101 10010111 01010001 1101 1001101 1011011101 10011111101 1001111 100101 11000101 1011011101 10011111101 1010110111 10010010111 11101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; ', with are repeated.

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

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