This is an analysis of the poem La Scala Santa that begins with:

IN San Gianni Lateran,
Dey've cot a flight of shdairs, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbab XcXcXddd XefeXegX XXgXfhah XeXedXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110100 110101 11001101 110101 11111100 01101111 01010101 110101 11101010 011101 1000100 011101 1101010 1011101 01110101 110101 1111110 011101 11011101 111101 111101 0110101 111011101 110101 0111010 011101 111010100 111100 11010100 111111 11111001 100101 11111010 111101 11111100 1110101 1111110 0011011 1001010 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; his is repeated.

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

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