This is an analysis of the poem What I Have Seen #2 that begins with:
I saw a maid with her chivalrous lover:
He was both tender and true;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcc cXcdee adadee fbfbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010010 1111011 11011010110 101101 1110001 1001001001 11010110010 1111010 10110011010 101101 11100 10010111 11010111010 110101 10010111110 101101 111001 100100101 11010110010 1011101 11010010110 110101 111101 0010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; saw is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What I Have Seen #2;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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