This is an analysis of the poem Amais that begins with:
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``O King Amasis, hail!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXdeefXcffcgbfgbXhbh XfXifffddXbjffjdccdcckcX XXbblcleeeeXjjiacabcbfcX XfkkdXXhhiiaccaelefafXaX aXffacaeekkjmmjincincfeX ajkkXjcffaXfjjfecekckXcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,24,24,24,24,24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111001 1011011000 1111010101 0101111101 1111110 101010101 11010000101 110101010101 100101 10011101100 110101010100 1110000101 1100010101 1101110100 110101 1111010101 110011 0101010001 11010101001 110110 100101111101 0111000101 110101 1 100101 0111110011 0111000101 1000100011 110101 1101010101 1111111110 0101010101 111010 0100010110101 1111010101 1111100101 1101001011100 1111110111 111101 01001101010 10110010011 111111 11111001001 110101 1110111110111 01010100110 110111 1 111000 0101110101 11011111001 1111100100 111101 1111010100 1101110111 110011110101 110101 110111001 1101001110 1110111101 111001111001 0111011101 1011111101 1101110101 111101 11010111001 11010011101 110101 101101010111 1011110111 111101 1 100011 1011010101 1101011101 10011001001 1101100 1001110100 1101010101 110111100111 111101 1111111111 011101010101 11011011001 01010111001 1100011111 100101 0101110100 11001011101 0101101 1001010101 011111 101101110101 0111011111 100111 1 101001 1001110101 1111100001 1101011111 111101 1101100101 1001010010 111111010111 111111 1111111101 0111010111 11110101101 1101011111 111101111101 111101 11011110110 110101 1111010011 11010101010 111101 100101010101 11010111001 111100 1 110101 1110110111 10110010101 10101001111 0010001 01100010101 1001001 1111010101101 1100101 1000101010 10001110101 1000010011 0110011001 1001001010101 1001101 11001000111 010001 1111000101 1011110101 101101 1101110101010 0101110101 0110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 912
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 149
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, and, i, thy, deep, as, he, of, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, even, the, firing are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase deep connects the lines.
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