This is an analysis of the poem Translations: Dante - Inferno, Canto Xxvi that begins with:

Florence, rejoice! For thou o'er land and sea
So spread'st thy pinions that the fame of thee ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddee ffffffdXccggb beecchaiXjjddkkccie iffXfllffeefXeXggggmmXjddaaahmmnX nneeccnnXjggffXcjjnnhaooffccggiikkiiiinnccddXkccaaiikkiijjiibbaaXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,19,33,67,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10011110111 1111010101 1111000101 1100011101 0111110101 1111011000 1101010011 10010101101 1101010101 01110010001 10111101110 11111111010 1111110101 1011010111 1001111101 0101111101 11110101001 1111011011 1111111101 1111110010 0111111111 110010110111 1101110101 1101110111 1011111101 1101011101 11001111010 11011011010 01010011101 11010111001 1011110100 1010100010101 1101010101 0111010100 0100111101 1101011111 10010011001 10010011101 11000110101 1110110101 1101010101 1011010101 1101000100 11010 10101 1011110101 11100110111 010111110100 1110010001 010110001100 1000111010101 0111010101 1111011101 00010101010 11010101010 10011101010 100110110100 0100110110 010111001 00101110101 0110011101 11010010101 0101110101 11100111 1001011101 1100101000 1000111001100 01001011101 1111010101 110110111 1101111111 010100101011 10101111100 1111010101 1101110101 1111101101 1110111110000 1101111111 1110001101 01011111010 101111101110 0011110111 1011111101 1001111101 1111011101 111100011100 0101000011 0101100101 0101010111 1001011001 1101010011 11010101010 01001010101 111011101 1001110011 11011100100 1101011101 0101000100 11110101001 0111000101 0101010101 0111100101 1101110101 1111010101 1111001111 01001010111 0111010101 0100111101 1101011101 1101110101 111111110111 1001101101 1101111101 1011100011 1101001101 0011011101 1111010100 1101010101 1111111101 0111011100 10111101101 1101110010 1110110101 1111110111 1100110101 1111010101 11111110001 00001110001 1101000101 1101111111 1101011011 1101010001 11110100111 0101111111 1001010111 1011011101 1101111001 1101110101 1100110101 0111010101 0111000101 1101010110 0111110101 10111101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 225
  • Amount of lines: 148
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, i, of are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Translations: Dante - Inferno, Canto Xxvi;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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