This is an analysis of the poem Amakeia that begins with:
In die skadu van die berge,
bos-beskut aan alle kant,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXbX XcXc dXXX XdXX XXaX XXbX XXbX XXXX XcXX bXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 110111 1101100 1111100 101100 1111110 111111 11110 11111100 1111100 1011111 111011 100110 1110101 111001 1111111 10111111 1111100 111100 101110 10001110 1011011 1110111 1001100 10001000 1111111 1110001 1110110 1111100 1110111 101111011 111111 1111100 1110110 11111111 111100 101111 1011111 11100101 101001 1101110 111111 11110100 1011111 11101111 1101110 11011100 11111 0110001 1111100 1110110 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, maar, stil are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Amakeia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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