This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint Of New Amsterdam that begins with:
I'm a grandchild of the Gods
Who on th' Amstel have abodes; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb ccdd ccee ffgg bbaa hhXf iijk eecc eekk ccee eXll kkee aaaa bbXc mmbb ffdd iijj jjcc iibb ddee bbcc mmkk ccdd iigb ddci Xgcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011001 111101100 1110111 1111100 1010111 1000101 0011101 1111101 0111101 1110111 1010111 0011101 11101110 00101010 1010101 1011111 1111101 1011011 0010111 11110101 1010111 1111101 0011010 1111111 1010011 1100101 0010100 1110111 1110111 1110101 11101110 10101010 10111011 11000011 10101001 1001101 0010111 10010111 1011111 1110101 1110001 1010100 1011101 1010101 1111011 0110101 0110101 1011101 0110011 1111101 1111100 1110111 1110111 1110111 11110110 1010111 1110101 1110101 1111111 1111101 1011000 1010101 1100111 1011101 1011111 1110101 10101010 00111010 11101110 10101010 10101010 11101010 1110001 1110101 1010101 11011101 1111101 0011111 1010001 1010101 1110101 1110101 101001 11111011 10101101 1111101 101000011 1111101 1010101 1011101 1111101 1110111 0011101 0011001 1110101 1111101 0110111 1110101 1110111 1111101 11101010 01100110 0011111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; my, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, with are repeated.
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- summary of The Complaint Of New Amsterdam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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