This is an analysis of the poem Confessio Amantis, Book Iii that begins with:

Appolinus his lev{.e} tok,
To God and al the lond betok... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXaabbaXbXcXXXXXXXddeeffaXXXcgXXXXbb bbXXhXiXXXiXiiXXjjXXkkehaXXlXXeeaXXXXXX mXXXXlXXiaXXXXaXXXlXXdXc XXdaXXXXXnnXXXXkkXX dXXhXXXXXX XlXXXXXXmXXXXXlXoollXXXXnXXXeXXXXlddXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXXiXgXXXXXbmmX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,39,24,19,10,67,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000011 01110110 0101111 11110110 011111 11101101 01111101 11100111 01110101 01110111 1111011 1111011 100011010 1111010 010011 01110101 10011010 11000110 10011101 01100101 110100101 0111101 01101110 110110010 01110101 0110111 1011111 0110111 01110110 0110110 11100101 1010111010 11110101 11010101 11010101 11010011 11001101 011111 10001101 11011101 11010111 111111101 1111101 11111000 11111111 11110111 11110111 111111111 110101111 1101010100 01101011 0111111 010101101 110111111 0110011 110010101 11101111 0111110 10010101 010010101 1110110 111011 1101111 01010111 0111010 11111101 10011111 1011111 01010010 011110 10011101 01011011 11100110 0110101 11001101 10010110 1011011 01110011 11110111 0110011 01011101 100110111 1101110111 11111110 111100 1101110 1110111 1101101 100101110 1011011 11011001 11111101 01111100 01101100 01011110 11111011 01110100 1010100100 0111101 1010110 1001111 101011000 1110101 11111011 1100101 101010101 11110101 1101001 11111010 0010111100 1101111 1110011 11000101 10100101 11000101 1010101 11110101 11011001 01011110 11010111 01110101 0111010 11111111 1111001 01010101 01010101 011001010 01011010 11110101 10010111 11011010 0111101 0110111 01110110 11011111 11000110 01111110 0110110 1111101 1111111 11011110 11100101 0101010 1101100 01110101 1110100 10000101 01000101 11011100 11110000 1110110 111111 1101111 0100011 111111 11010110 11001111 01011110 01011110 01011101 1001111 1111011 10010101 11111001 0101011 01010101 11101101 10010111 11110101 01010101 10001101 11010110 11101011 100111 10110101 101100111 0101101001 01011110 110100101 1001101 11110011 111010111 1111011 1011111 111011100 111110111 101111010 11111100 11000101 101001101 11101111 11011111 10001011 11001001 1101101 10101111 110100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 251
  • Amount of lines: 197
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, and, in, mi, thou, he, it, s, that, thei, hire, sche, yee are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, mi, that, and, hire are repeated.

    The author used the same word appolinus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, lich, d, n, in are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Confessio Amantis, Book Iii;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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