This is an analysis of the poem On Dante's Monument, 1818 that begins with:

Though all the nations now
Peace gathers under her white wings,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeedccfggeehee Xighhgccgjgggkbgg ljajgijjjmmegmall knhkcbbXcghhbgjeecmmibmbcclgggemjj lgbbbjbjggagkklcc hageencfcgifgbggXbccjggekklcgkblaa eoedefgggiigbgooX beccggglgXbabaacd ejgbgjjfgcdejjecc ehcdeggjXXkkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,17,17,34,17,34,17,17,17,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 110101 11010011 0101000101 0001011100 11110111 100100100001 1100111100 11001101 1111111101 1011111100 11110101 11010101 1111101101 1011010100 11111011 11010111 01010100 10001010101 010101 1101010101 111001101 1101010101 11010111 11011010101 0101010111 1101011111 01110101 1100110101 100101001 11010011 00110101 010101 110010101110 10110100010 1101000111 110111 011101 010101 110101010101 11011101 11111101 1111010101 1101110111 11110111 110101 01011101 0101011101 010101 1101111101 1110110101 11110011 1101010101 1011011101 1101011101 0111011101 1111010101 01001111 1101110101 010101 01110101 11010010101 1101111101 01000100101 1111010111 11000101 11011101 0101001101 0100010101 111101 1100110101 01110100 11111101 1101100101 110100100101 010100101 00111111 11110001 1111101111 101101 0101001 1111011111 0111010101 1100110100 1111010101 01010111 11101111 111101 00010011 10011101 011101010 1111110101 0101010100 1100101101 010111 110111010101 0111111101 11010101 11000111 1101111101 1101110101 1101110101 0101110101 1101110101 01011101 01011101 110101 11010111 10111101 1101010101 0101000101 0101000101 1101010011 11010101 01010111 0101010001 1101111101 111101 0101011101 11010111100 1111011101 11111111 11010101 11011111 11010101 01010010101 1001010101 11111101 11011101 010001 0111110111 11011111 1111 1101010101 1101110111 1111010011 1001000101 10000111 1111011111 1101111100 11010100 1101000101 01010101 01000111001 1101010101 0101111111 110101011 0101001101 111111010101 1101000111 11101101 1101100101 0101111101 1110111101 01010101001 11000101 111101 1101010111 0111010101 010101 010000110 10010101 100101001 1111001100 1101111101 11110101 1101 10010110001 110101 11010011 01010100 110111 111101 11100001 1101011101 01001111 1111000101 1011110101 0110010101 01110111 1100111 11111100 1001110101 1011010101 1111011011 1111010001 1110100101 1101110101 110101 01110011 1111010101 10001101100 011101 1101110101 1001001101 0111100111 11010110 01011101100 111101 10010101 11000100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 746
  • Average number of words per stanza: 138
  • Amount of lines: 200
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, in, your, of, thou, have, what, with, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, why, but, and are repeated.

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