This is an analysis of the poem Guido Sebaldi that begins with:

Guido Sebaldi the mason
Worked at a house of stone:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AaAa bXaX cXaX abcX DeDE AaAa XfXf aaca XXaE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100010 110101 10100010 110101 101011101 11100111 10100010 100111 1101110 1101101 110100010 100101 110100010 110101 11111110 101101010 10100010 110111 10100010 110111 10100010 100101 10100010 110101 01010110 1010101 1010010110 0100101 10100010 1100101 10111110 11110101 11111110 01101110 110100010 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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.

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