This is an analysis of the poem Richard Minutolo that begins with:

IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told,
Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aaddbb eeffaabbgg hhccaaXbaabb aaiiXijjaaaabb aaaa bbhhjjcc kkbbiciiccaabb jXaaiidd ggbbiiaac cddii bbbb kkaa ddbbbbcceebXXXjjbbbb ffhhllXcggbX kkiiaXmmkkbbaabbaabbccii aaXfaaffhhhhdd cccchhnncc kkjjooccmmgg aaaaeebboobb bbeeeegg bbaa ddXcbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,10,12,14,4,8,14,8,9,5,4,4,20,12,24,14,10,12,12,8,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110111 0111001101 0101000101 1101110101 1101010101 1101001101 1101010001 1111011101 1000110101 0101010101 1111011110 1101011101 1001111101 11100010101 1111110001 0101000111 1111010101 1101011101 0100010101 1101010111 1001110011 1101111101 1101011101 0110010101 01010101011 11010101001 1111100101 0101000101 1101010110 1100011101 0111100001 1101111001 0101000101 01010110011 11111101011 0111110001 0101010011 0100111101 1101010110 1111110001 1101011011 0101010010 1111111101 0101011001 0111010101 0110110111 1101011101 1101110110 1101001101 1111010111 1001010101 1111010101 1101111111 0101011101 1111010101 1101110111 1111010111 1101010101 1101010101 01100101001 0101011001 1001110101 0101010101 1101010001 1001111001 1101010101 1111110101 0101010101 1110011101 1111110101 1111110101 0101001001 1101010101 0111011011 0101100001 0111010010 1101010111 1101011101 1101010101 0101111101 0101111111 1111010111 0111010101 1101010101 0101000111 1000111101 1111010101 0111010101 0101010101 0100001001 1011010101 0111111011 1101010101 1101011001 0110001101 1101110111 0101111101 0101011101 1111010101 1111011001 0101010111 0101110111 1101110111 1101111101 1111011101 1101010101 1100010101 1101010001 01011001111 1101110101 1101010101 0101100001 1101010101 1110111001 0101000101 0101110110 1101010011 0110000101 1100110101 1101110101 0101011101 1101111001 1101010111 1101011101 1101111001 1111111111 0101011101 0111110011 1001111101 1111010101 1001010110 1101011111 1111010111 0101011101 1111110111 1111111110 1000111001 0101110101 01101010101 1101010101 1011111101 11011100100 1101110101 1111101101 0111011101 0011011111 0101010111 0101010101 1101010011 1101000101 0101110101 1011100101 1100111111 1101000101 1001110101 01010110111 1000010101 1111011101 1111111111 01110101001 1101010001 0101011101 0101111110 1111000110 11010101101 0101000101 1100111111 1111011111 1111111101 1111011101 0101011101 0001110111 1111110111 1101000101 0101110101 1111110101 0101010001 1000110101 1101111101 0111110101 01011101010 11010001010 1101001101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010001 0110100111 0101011101 11010100101 1111110001 0101011101 10111000111 1101010101 1101010101 1101101001 1101011111 1100100101 1101011101 1100011011 0011010101 0100101111 1111010101 1111010111 1101111101 1111010101 0101010111 1101010101 1101111101 1110000101 0100111101 0111110001 1101010101 0101011101 0101010111 1101010101 11010100101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010001 0110011101 1101000101 0101100101 01011110001 11111101010 1111110111 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 226
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, i, to, she, you, her, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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