This is an analysis of the poem Sicily, December 1908 that begins with:
O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, --
Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX bcdbcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010101111 1101011101 11001101011 11011110101 1101010111 0101011101 1100011101 1101011100 01010101010 1101101101 1111011101 11010001010 1001010100 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sicily, December 1908;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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