This is an analysis of Amais by Robert Laurence Binyon.
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``O King Amasis, hail!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXdeefXcffcgbfgbXhbh XfXifffddXbjffjdccdcckcX XXbblcleeeeXjjiacabcbfcX XfkkdXXhhiiaccaelefafXaX aXffacaeekkjmmjincincfeX ajkkXjcffaXfjjfecekckXcf
- Stanza lengths: 24,24,24,24,24,24,
- 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
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 149
Repeated words/phrases
how, and, i, thy, deep, as, he, of, on
Anaphora
how, even, the, firing
Anadiplosis
deep
