This is an analysis of the poem Franciscae Meae Laudes (Praises Of My Francesca) that begins with:

Novis te cantabo chordis,
O novelletum quod ludis...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XXX XbX XXX Xaa XXX XXX XXX XXX cXX XXX a ded fgb XXh fhe gij XHa eXi gkh hlf XEj fXa X c j mmm llX Xbb ebb jjj hHh lll kkk ddd Xii ffa n X lll fff nnn Xbe ggX ooo XXl ggg ddX XEX Xgg Xi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110010 11000110 0100010 10101000 1001000 11100100 1010001 1010001 1100110 1100100 10010100 100010 10101000 0100100 1001101 10010100 111000 1010110 11010100 1101000 1101000 011100 011100 1110100 111100 110100 10001000 1101010 11000100 10101000 01010100 10101010 10010100 010110 11011011 11111010 00101011 00101010 101010 11111101 100011 1111001 10100101 1010010 110111001 10110100 1010010 01001010 111111110 1011010 1000101 01010111 11111110 111111 101111 01101101 001011 11111101 1111011 1110 01001 11011 1100100 111010010 11000101 1100101001 1001110 010110100 1001010 10001101100 01110111 1011111 010101101 11100101 1000101 1110010 1010101 11101011 111000111 11101110 01101011 01101011 10101110 10101010 11101110 10101001 1000101 1010111 11101100 10101010 11111010 11010111 10010101 01011101 0111111 1111101 01111101 10101100 10101110 11100010 101110010 110101010 110111010 0101110 10110 1111111 1110101 1110101 10101010 10101110 1011101 1010111 1110111 1011100 1110100 11100101 1011100 10110010 01101010 11101100 10100011 0010101 1011111 11111000 11111000 11111010 0110101 0110110 1111101 1110111 1110100 0010011 0111100 1100100 10110000 1010110 10010101 110101 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 51
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
  • Average number of words per stanza: 13
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; that, which, to, you, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quod, in, what, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, me are repeated).

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  • summary of Franciscae Meae Laudes (Praises Of My Francesca);
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