This is an analysis of the poem The Faire Amarillis that begins with:

Amarillis was full fayre:
The goodlyest mayde was she... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabb XXXX XXXX XbXX XcXc XXXX dXeX XXfX bXXX gXcX hXdX XXbX XeiX fXXX XXbX cXbX XXgi iXXX XXXX XXiX XXXX XjXX bXkg XkXX Xbgb XXXk Xjdj jXik XhXX dlml mXXX fene XXdX dhXX XXaX emXm XXnX XiXi XXXX XiXi XXaX XXaX cXm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000111 010111 0011001 1101111 0010101 010001 1100101 1001001 1101101 11110 0010111 11111 1110110 111101 1110110 111111 1101010 1111110 11111 0111110 1001100 110110 1111101 010001 0111101 110001 1011000 011010 1011110 011011 0100101 111101 11110101 010101 0101010 1100110 1011101 011010 1110110 101110 1010101 1101001 1010001 1100101 1110111 111010 10101111 111010 1001111 010111 01000101 110110 101011 1111 1100101 1110101 0011100 11001 1001001 100101 1011100 111110 111111 111101 110110 11111 1000101 101101 10111001 11010 1011101 101001 00111010 1011010 10101100 1101101 1000111 01111 11101001 11001 1111111 110101 1111101 11011 10011111 110100 10011100 110111 111111 101110 101111 110001 1110101 110101 0111100 11111 1011111 110111 1110011 111001 1001111 01010101 10010111 111111 1111100 11111 111101 0101001 1111101 110010 10101011 011001 1001101 110111 1100111 11010 11011101 111001 001011 11001 1010111 110110 0010110 111110 1010100 11111 1011101 111101 00101110 110111 0010101 111101 1000101 111101 1110110 101001 0010101 010101 1011111 011110 11010100 010101 1011110 1101111 1000101 110001 1000110001 10001001 100111 110101 0111111 0111101 1001011 100100 101011001 010000 1011110 011001 11011001 100111 1010001 1100010 1100101 110010 1111101 110111 10011101 110010 11101010 111111 10101110 11011 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 44
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, it, theire, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, by, now, sometymes, in are repeated.

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