This is an analysis of the poem The New Amadis that begins with:
IN my boyhood's days so drear
I was kept confined;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aX ab b Xc Xc d dd de e fd fd a ea eg g afXaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 11101 11111001 10111 10101 1110111 10100 1010101 10110 10111 10010101 10011 1010111 01101 11101 1110101 10101 1111010 10101 11110 1010101 10101 1110111 110101 001001 1110011 11101 1000101 11101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 41
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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