The Treasury by Alfonso X El Sabio: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Treasury that begins with:

THE strange intelligence then reached my ears
That in the land of Egypt lived a man, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccabddbbeebfggffggfXeeaaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101001111 1001010101 1101010001 0101000100 1101110101 11100100101 1010001101 0111010101 010010101011 1111000100 0100110100 1100101010101 1101111101 1101010101 0111010111 1101100111 0101001101 101010111110 1101110101 011101111101 1110010101 1001010111 11010101001 11111100101 11010001100 1110010001 1101010011 1101011100 1101010100 1100010001 1101011100 1100011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1395
  • Average number of words per stanza: 248
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, my, i, with are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of The Treasury;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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