This is an analysis of the poem Confessio Amantis. Prologus that begins with:

Torpor, ebes sensus, scola parua labor minimusque
Causant quo minimus ipse minora canam:... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1088,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 17515
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3309
  • Amount of lines: 1095
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, it, and, i, tho, for, thei, in, to, that, now, he, his, hem, be, schal, or, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, tho, thei, now, whan are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wyse, rede, werre, kepe, tho, goode, laste, hele, faile, drede are repeated).

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  • summary of Confessio Amantis. Prologus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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