This is an analysis of the poem Amithaine that begins with:
Who has seen the towers of Amithaine
Swan-throated rising from the main...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaXa XXXXbb XaaaXX bbccdd XabbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100100 11010001 11011001 100100101 1110100100 11110001 110101010 01010001 11010100 010101000 11010101 11000111 01010100 01010101 01010111 11010011 01010100 00100100 10010011 110010111 11011101 01010001 11010111 10010001 11010100 11001101 110101001 01010101 10011101 01000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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- summary of Amithaine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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