This is an analysis of the poem Amaryllis that begins with:
I care not for these ladies that must be wooed and prayed;
Give me kind Amaryllis, the wanton country maid.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbB ccXBB XXaBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111110110111 1111010010101 101100010001 011111111011 11111100110011 01110101111110 10111101111010 101111110111 111111111011 11111100110011 1101110111101 11010011011110 111010011101 111111111011 11111100110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, we, give, love, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word no at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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