This is an analysis of the poem Paradiso: Canto Ii that begins with:

Paradiso Canto 2
O Ye, who in some pretty little boat,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abb cXa aXc dea fgh afd ahd iaj bfd kdX lab kmh ain lhd oac npd foX hdq fcc XlX aXa gna hkn lhd Xgi dlc lgX iXf geb dld jlq ffl mac qcd kfa ccd aaf ccc cld cpl ddo pid cad rak adj ccn Xcd dck arc X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0010101 1110110101 1001010100 0111110101 1101010111 11110111000 0101111001 0111110101 01011101010 1101110101 11011101100 100011010011 11011111010 1111010111 11010111011 0101011101 11001110101 0111011110 1101100101 01010101001 101100111 11111101001 1011001110 1011011101 1110011001 0111110101 1001111111 0111011001 0111011100 1101110011 11110011111 0101010101 1001010111 11001101010 0001000101 01110110101 01010101010 01110111011 11010101010 11100101010 100101010001 1100010101 11111100010 1001110111 1101011100 0100111101 11011001010 1111111101 1101100101 1111010110 0101010111 11011100101 11111110010 010010011 10001011101 10010101111 11001100010 111010111 1111110010 1111011101 01111101110 1111011101 01010101110 01001111010 1100110101 1011001100 1100011100 0001111101 1101011001 1111011100 1001100101 0101001111 01111100001 01010000010 0111010111 010101010010 11100100010 0111101100 1001010101 0001000101 01010110101 011111001000 00111111010 10010101010 1101010100 10010011111 1110010011 01000101010 110101000010 10101010101 0101011001 1111011101 1101100101 1101010101 00010100011 01011010100 0100010011 1101111101 0101010101 0101011111 1011110111 01011000110 11010111010 10010001110 0101011111 10010100010 1101010011 1000100101 1001010101 1101001101 0101010101 10110001101 01010000101 0101001101 0100110001 010010111101 01010110001 0100011001 010111001000 10010111010 0110111101 1111000101 1110010101 1001111101 0111110111 10011101010 1101110101 01011000101 1001000101 100110101 01011110111 00010001110 0101110001 1101010111 110100101010 0100010101 11100100010 0101010101 0101010100 10011001100 10010101010 0111010001 0011010001 0101010101 10110101010 00011000101 10010010111 000101001010 0100010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 51
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 149
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; as, and, me, body, i, of, or, in, its, by, from, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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