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

Once, when I wandered in the woods alone,
An old man tottered up to me and said, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cbcbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111000101 11110010111 1111011111 1101011001 0001110111 1111011101 1111010111 1101010111 1101010111 0100111101 0101010101 1101000101 0111010111 0111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, of are repeated.

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