This is an analysis of the poem At San Giovanni Del Lago that begins with:
I leaned upon the rustic bridge,
And watched the streamlet make... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fgfh ijij kbkb klkl kXkj ebeb dldl gigi bmbm gngn eXeX nono nenX koko dgdh ikik oeoe jeje ebeb kpkp XkgkXgdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 110101 010011101 100101 01110101 110101 01011111 111101 11010101 110101 01010011 010101 11010101 110101 11010111 110100 01000101 101111 10010101 110101 11010001 110101 110011001 0110111 11010101 110111 11010101 110101 100111001 100111 01010101 101101 10011101 110101 11110101 010101 10110101 101111 11111101 110111 11010111 110100 11011100 011101 01001111 011101 01010111 100111 11011101 010001 00010111 110111 11000101 100111 110110111 011101 11110111 110101 11010101 101101 10010101 100101 11100101 11010 01010101 110111 011101101 110101 11010111 111101 010010101 1101100 11011101 001101 11110111 110101 11110101 010111 01011111 100101 11010101 110101 11010101 111101 11111111 010001 11010111 110101 11010111 110001 111110111 1010001 11111101 1100111 01011111 110001 01000101 110101 11110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, why, yours, she, and are repeated.
The author used the same word two at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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