This is an analysis of the poem Colin's Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser's Style that begins with:
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,
(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: ababacacdd ececafafcc ddddaaaaaa XghgedXdee bdbddcdcdd aaaadhdhaa cbcbafafaa adadafafii aaaXdadacc ajajegegiiXededgdgddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 11110011101 0101010111 1011010101 1101010111 1111011101 1111111111 1101010101 11110101101 110001110101 11010110001 1101010101 01010010101 1011000101 1011010101 0111010101 01001010101 1101010101 1001000101 010101010101 1011010101 11010010101 1101001001 0101010101 110010100101 0111010101 1111010111 0101010101 10110101110 1011011101010 0101010110 11001010101 1111110101 1111110111 01011010101 01001010101 0101110111 11000010101 11010100101 100101110001 1111000101 10001110101 0111010101 0101010001 01110111001 1101010011 1010010101 0111101101 0101010101 1101010010101 10010000101 1101010101 1100010100 1101011101 1011111101 1100010101 11010110101 1111010101 1111000101 1100101010001 1101001101 11010101001 1101110101 0101010001 1101011101 0111011101 1001110101 1101110101 1000010111 11010101001 1101110101 0101100111 1001010101 0101110101 0101000101 1101000101 10011110101 01111100001 010101110010 1101011100010 101100110011 11010111110 1111010101 11010101100 1101110101 1101110101 01010010001 0111110011 1101010101 10001010101 1001100101 1111010101 1101010011 1111110101 1101110101 11011101001 1011111101 0101010101 11000010101 110110010101 1101110011 1111010111 11011110101 1101010001 110110111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 110010010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 445
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; he, and, her, to, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, a are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Colin's Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser's Style;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
