This is an analysis of the poem A Letter From Italy that begins with:

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Lately, when we wished good-bye... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbbX XccadbbeeffcXggeXcchhiXjj XeeeeffcckkbbXXjjeellmmnn Xoooojjggmmiiadggbbbbjjjjbbpp aggeebbqqee aeennaajjjjjjjjrroonnbbbbjjgggbbjjbbaakX XffnnbbaajXjjssccbbjjbbllggcceeggad XjjnnggjjjjjjXkqXjjllfflXlleell Xqqbbooggmm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,25,25,29,11,40,35,31,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1011101 1010101 1111101 1011101 1010101 1110011 1 1011001 1011101 10111001 1000100 1010111 1010101 1010111 10100001 10101110 10100110 10100111 1011100 1010111 1010101 1010101 11101001 10001001 1011101 1110101 1010001 10111110 10101010 10010101 1010011 1 1010101 1010101 1010101 10101011 1010111 1010100 1010101 1010101 10101010 100001010 0010001 0110101 10011011 1011101 1000101 1011100 00101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 1011111 1010101 100001111 00101011 1 1110111 1010001 10101010 11101010 1010001 1010111 1011101 1010001 1011111 1101111 1010101 1110111 101001001 1000100 1011101 1010101 1010111 10111001 0011101 0010101 1010101 101001001 101011001 1010101 1001111 1111101 1010101 1010011 1 1111101 1010101 1100101 1010111 110001 1110101 1011111 1011001 10111001 1110101 1 1110111 1001101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1011111 1010101 10001101 1010111 1010101 1111111 1100101 1011101 1010101 1011101 0111101 1100111 1010001 1110101 1010001 1010101 1011111 1011101 1111101 1011101 1011101 1110111 1010101 1110101 0100011 1110111 1110101 1111101 1111111 1111111 1111100 1010101 1000110 101010 1 11101101 1110101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1110101 1110101 01101001 1010101 0111001 1011111 0010101 10101001 1010101 1010101 1011101 1001111 1110101 1011101 1011100 1010101 1010101 11111001 1010100 1110111 1010101 1110111 1000100 1100111 1010101 1010101 1111101 1011111 1110100 1 1010111 1010111 1010111 1110111 1111101 1001101 1011111 1011001 1110111 1000101 1010101 0011101 11111010 11111010 1010111 0010110 1110101 1010101 11100001 10100111 1111101 1110101 11111110 100111110 10101010 00010010 1010101 1010101 1010101 11110001 1 1011101 10011101 1011111 1111101 1100101 0010011 0110101 1010101 0011111 1011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 703
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 214
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; higher, to, his, me, with, when, i, of, in are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

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