This is an analysis of the poem De Amicitiis that begins with:
Though care and strife
Elsewhere be rife,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddXeeX cXfggf hhciic ccbjXX ggkllk mmjeej iienne mmoddo aameeX ccneen iijaaX ppcbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1101 011111110 0111 0111 100101110 1101 1111 010111010 0111 0101 11011100100 1111 0111 100111111 1111 1101 110111011 1111 1101 111110011 1011 0101 111111011 0111 1101 111100010 1110 0101 110111010 1101 1101 110001110 1001 0101 010101010 1101 1101 110111110 1111 0101 111111010 0101 1101 011000110 1111 0101 111101010 0101 0101 010101110 0111 1101 110111110 1011 1101 110101011 1101 0101 010101000 1111 0101 111111010 01011 1101 010101010 1101 1111 111101010 1101 1101 110101100 1101 0111 010101111 1101 1101 010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, i, the are repeated.
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- summary of De Amicitiis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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