This is an analysis of the poem Amelia that begins with:

Whene'er mine eyes do my Amelia greet
It is with such emotion... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab bcbcdddaacaeeaffaaaa ggagacddh Xccbdd biibbbbccbbddjjaaeiedkXikelkX ddmdnmnllbbbddddjdjdcch kooaabmmklblkldadaXmappaX ldqdqllXjjaaXggdddd lalralaalXadra ramadd rlljjddbbgssgaagaeeaXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,20,9,6,29,23,25,19,14,6,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011110101 0001010 1101110011 1110010 1101011101 11011010101 1001010111 11010100101 0101 010111101 100101011101 10010000111 1100011101 10010 111011 0101010101 11011 110101 1101100101 1101110101 1001 10001110111 110101111101 11110110011 010101 0101110001 1101011001 0101001001 1111100100 11110101001 110111 1110111101 0101110100 1101011101 1011010101 0111010101 0101010101 1101101101 0111011011 111101 111010101001 1101 1111 01000100101 0111 0101010101 101101 0111010101 0101010101 110101 0111010001 101111 1111011101 100101 101101011 0101010101 1101 10101001 100101 110111 1101 1001011000 110101011101 1101 0101010001 0101 1101010101 11 11010100111 110101 1110110001 1101011101 001101 1011010011 11011101001 1110110101 1101001101 1101010101 1101 1101110111 1110111111 101101 0101001101 1101010101 1001010001 11011 11011100011 0101010010 1011 1101010 11010010100 111111 0111000101 010111 1100011011 111101 0111000101 0111010101 01110011101 11001 1100011101 1101 1101 1111 110011 1011010101 11010111001 011101010011 0101111100 0111110110 1011011100 1110 0111111101001 1101 0101011001 1101100101 1111 010111 01001001001 1111001111 0111110101 1001010101 1101010111 11010101000 0100001 1111 0101111100 111100101110 1110 101111 0101110101 101111100001 0101100101 1101010111 1101011101 11 1101011101 1101001101 11010111110 1101110101 1011010001 11001101001 1101110101 0111010111 01110111110 01110101101 10010100101 10111100010 0101010111 11111100010 1101110001 1101011001 11110101001 01110111 11010101 11011101010 110111 1011111101 1101 0101001101 0101 11010010001 1101110001 1101100101 1111010001 1100101 01011 0101010101 1111110011 110101 110101 1111 1011011111 1001010001 1101 1101011110 1101010111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 178
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; i, to, and, of, her, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, her, now, with are repeated.

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

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

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