This is an analysis of the poem Farewell, Fair Armida. A Song that begins with:
Farewell, fair Armida, my joy and my grief!
In vain I have loved you, and hope no relief; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101011111 01111111101 01111011101 11111111101 11111011010 01101011101 01001001101 0111100101 111010010110 010011010010 11111111111 11011101101 10011101101 11011011011 01111111001 11001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 749
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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