This is an analysis of the poem From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso that begins with:

Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she
should esteem all as Enemies, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc ddeebbffccggbXggddbbbehh iiffii Xcb jjiiiiaajjeeffhhiiXgjjiiiiffcciiiifkhhXgllcciibbjjl Xk ffbbiiiijjbbXXfflldbdggXiggiihhiibbaaffggccdd ffgghhccggffbbmmaahh iibbiiggccggXXiii ffjjggffjjggggiieebbbbiiebiiXghh N aabbaaiXlljjgg N XiiXXhhhhiXiibb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,24,6,3,51,2,45,20,17,32,1,14,1,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101001000101 10111100 1110001 1001010101 0100010111 0101001101 01001111101 11010111010 1101010101 0101010101 1101111101 0101010011 1111010101 1001000101 1111010101 01010111010 1101010111 11011101001 0110110011 1111010101 1101110001 1101110111 0111110101 1111111101 1111100101 01011010101 1111111101 1111010101 1111010111 11110010101 1111000101 11111010101 1111011101 100101110 10010001 1110 101001111101 1101111101 1111110101 1001011101 01001111101 1111011101 0111010101 1111110111 10111010111 1011000101 0101010111 1111111101 1111110111 1111111101 11111101101 1101010111 111001 11111111101 0101011111 1010101110111 1101010111 1101010101 1001010101 1111110111 0101011101 1111010001 1001011001 1111110101 01010011111 1011110101 00111101011 1101111101 0101111111 0101010101 0101010101 1001110100 1110011101 0111111111 1100001010100 1111110011 1001110111 0111110101 01001011111 1001101101 11011100101 1001110011 1111111101 1101011111 1111111111 1101110101 1101010111 10011001001010 1000101001001010 101111110101 1001101010101 1011010101 101101011 10110110101 1011010101 1111110101 11101101101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1111000111 1001010010 0101010101 0100111101 11010010111 1101010101 100111111101 0101111101 1101 1110111 1011011001 1111110101 1101010110 1101111101 1101110101 1100010101 1101110101 1011010101 111110111 1111010101 1101001101 101111100101 10010110101 1111000101 1011110111 1101001101 0111010101 1110110101 0111011111 01100011001 1100110101 1011010101 1011110111 1111010101 1101001101 1001011101 0101110111 1100001101 1110110101 1101110101 11110100111 1101011101 1101001101 0101110101 1101110101 1111110101 1100011101 1101010101 1001100111 1111010101 1111011010 0100010101 0101111101 1101010101 1101111111 1111110101 1011110101 1011011101 1111111101 1111001111 100110101001 1001010101 0101011101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010011 1001000111 0110010101 1100010101 1101011101 101111111101 0101101101 0101010101 0111011101 1101110111 1001110101 11011111001 0101001111 0011001101 10011100001 1101010101 1101010111 1011010101 1011110101 1101111001 11011100010 11010111010 1101110101 1101010101 0111011001 11111111001 1111111101 1111010101 1101010001 1101011101 11010011101 1100111111 1111010101 0111110111 1101110111 11101110111 0111011101 1101010101 00010011 11010101 1101101 10010111 1111000101 11011001 00110111 101100101 11010100 10110101 10010001 10010111 11110001 11010101 01100101 00010011 10001000101 11110101 01010101 10110101 01010110 11011101 11100101 01011101 11010101 11010101 11010110 11001101 11010101 11110111 01010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 744
  • Average number of words per stanza: 129
  • Amount of lines: 238
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, love, her, may, my, i, musick, as, and, can, how, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, together, musick, can, how are repeated.

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

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