This is an analysis of the poem Palinodia that begins with:

TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdebfgdhgdijfkjdfigjXjklmdeankXkof kgljpfjfekqpjjogkk fdfpkrfhjjgkjfnfffdkfrfdfggsXcjXgffdargjjh gpfdjdfrgagkdbgjkmXjtfjfsdrgjembjjjgk gjlhXkmtjsfkgjrbgc kktghjjtkgjkbpgjjdrjgijnkgokgffnlXenkdrhobdmhcgengkgjefsd XfXgqijXrfhmpsgggfff kgijhsgfrsdcXgsbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,36,18,42,37,18,57,20,33,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 001110100 1101011101 1101111101 0111011011 1101010001 0100011111 1001010100 0111110101 110101010101 1001010111 01010100111 0101001100 0111010101 1101001100 1101010001 0101010101 0101110111 1101011101 01010010011 1111111101 0101100100 0101000101 1111001101 110111001011 1110010101 1111010101 0101010101 0011010100 0110011001 0101010101 01010100010 010010100001 1111000101 100100010010 01001100101 0101010101 0111011101 0101010001 11010101001 0101000111 0101000101 01001010101 1101110101 1111000101 1101000101 1111000111 1111010101 1001000111 0101010110 1001011001 11010010100 1001011101 1101010101 0101100101 0111110011 1111010101 0101110100 1101011101 1111000110 0101010101 01001010101 0101010101 0101000101 0111011100 1101010101 0101000101 0101001101 110111100 1001010111 1111010011 1101001101 0101000101 1100010101 100011101 0110010100 1101010001 0001010111 01001110001 1101010001 0101110101 1111000111 1101010100 1101000101 0101001100 0101001011 0101010100 0011000101 01010010101 1101110101 0100110001 1100111101 0100010001 0101010101 0111010100 0110010101 1000111101 1101111101 1111000101 1001001011 0111010101 0101000101 0101010011 0101010101 11110011101 1111010011 1001110101 0101110111 1011010101 1111001100 1101011100 0101010111 01001001101 0101010111 1001010111 1100010101 00110111000 1101010111 1111010100 0011101101 1101010101 1111001101 0101001101 0101010101 1101010101 0100010101 1101010101 0110010101 1110010001 1101010111 1111110001 1100010100 0101100101 1100010101 11001100101 1100111111 10110000101 0111111111 0111010101 11110010101 1100010011 1101010111 11110101010 01010100101 11011101001 0101011101 01011100101 0101111101 01101110101 1011000101001000101 10000110101 1111010101 00110100101 10101110010 0101111100 01010101010 1111100101 0011010001 0101111111 0101110101 110100100110 0101100100 1101100101 11010101010 1101010101 1101010101 1100010101 0101010001 0101010101 0101010100 1101010100 1101011101 0101010101 0101010101 11010010100 0101001100 0100110101 0100010011 01010100101 110010100100 0101110101 0110011111 1001010111 1101001101 0011011111 10101010101 0101111110 0101110011 1111110111 1001010110 0101100101 0110111101 01001011100 010011101001 0100111101 1101000100 0101010111 01110110101 1101010011 0101001111 01111101 0101010101 0101011101 0101010010 1011110011 0101010100 1101010101 1101001101 1100011101 10001010101 1111011100 0011011101 01001101110 0101011101 0100011101 0111001100 1101010101 0101010101 0101001101 0100010101 01001101001 11000101001 0101000110 0101101101 1100111111 0001110100 0101101011 0100010001 1101010101 1100010111 1011110101 01010101001 11010010100 1110111101 0110000101 1111010111 0001011101 0101010101 1011110101 0101111001 1101100100 1111010011 110100010010 1100011011 1100010101 1101110110 0100110001 11110100111 0111010111 1101110101 1101110101 11001100001 1101011101 1001111101 01011000101 0011110011 1101010011 1101111101 1101010110 0111011100 0110110100 0100010101 0101010101 1111010111 0100110101 11011101101 1101010101 1111011100 0100110101 1111011101 0101101101 0100011100 0101000100 1101010101 1111011111 0111010101 1101000111 0101000101 1101111101 01110010011 0111010101 1111010101 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 202
  • Amount of lines: 283
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; i, and, of, from, or, our, how, than, to, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, our, to, how, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Palinodia;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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