This is an analysis of the poem The Ginestra, that begins with:

OR THE FLOWER OF THE WILDERNESS.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bacddefdddegecdcXhddhihfhffjkalafemcnndopaolpXdioaaX Xbqdcdcfkifrdroifchchhrfikohddoaogomhaa lcsfaXaflnlacnhdfafrpqiirgiqoonfacsofciaadXcdfpfrhipbodopdoddoaikkdooodfodhpdhaoaddhfholfgpqhphmfddadcpfaodXfcorhcc radiXoqfdfrllafodadddrampfohadrroodXXfrodcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,52,39,115,93,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000100 110101 010100 01010100 11110111001 1100110101 11010 0101101101 1001010111 010101 11110001 1001010 1101010001 10010100 1101111101 0101010101 0101000101 11010101 11010001 0101011101 11110101 110001 11010100 01010101 01010011 01010101 11000101 01010100 10010001 010101 0101010101 1101000101 01010100 11011101 111111010 1101000101 00111101 0101100 1101000101 11111101 0101001101 1101 1101000101 11110100 0100101 01011111 0101100101 0111001001 0101111100 11000101 111101 110101 11011001010 1110010110 111101 11110101 1101 11010101 10110101 1111 11010101 1101110101 100100 11010111 1111 1101011101 11001011 010101 110100 0111110011 11010101 1101110101 1111011101 11110100 0101110101 1001011101 110101 110100 1111011101 1101110101 010101101 111001 1111000101 11010111 100101 11011111 1101011111 0101110100 1001111101 110101 1001010101 0101010101 0101011101 100100101 111101 01010101 11010100 01010110 01010100 10010011 11011011 11010111 1011 11110100 110011 1101010100 01010101 100101 0101010100 110101011 1101010001 11010101 110101 11000101 11011100 1100011100 11010101 11010101 01110100 11010101 0100111101 1101010111 11010100111 11100100 01010011 01010101 10010011 10110 10110100 01110000 01010100 11010101 01011001 10001010101 111010000 10110101 1101010101 01000101 11000101 1001011100 1111110101 0111101001 0101010100 01010101 011101 10010001 01010101 11010101 11111101 1110100101 11111001 11000101 01010101 01110001 1101110101 11111100 0011000101 01110101 1101010110 1101010101 1111010111 11111100 110101 110101 1101011111 110010101 0101010101 1001010001 1101010101 01010101 1111110111 110001 111101 11110001 110101 011101 1011110100 0111110101 1101110100 11011101 1101111111 1111010101 0101010101 0111011101 010100111 11101101 1101 0100110101 0101110101 110101 111011 0111010101 111101 010101 1001010101 010111 01001101 11110101 1101001101 11110101010 0100110101 1101110001 01010101 111101 110101 1101011101 0101110101 1011010001 010101 001100001 0101000100 010011 010101 11111101 100100100 1001010001 1101101101 110011 0101100 010101 010101 01010101 01010101 110101 0101001001 0101 0101010101 1101101101 0101111101 1101 10111101 0101011111 01011101 0101010101 1011101111 11011001 011101 01011101 0101110111 10110011 110101011 11010101 110100 0101010101 0101010001 11000101 101101 10010010001 11010101 0100010101 110100 110101 00110011 1111010101 01010011010 1001000111 010101 0101010001 0100010101 10110101 1001 1101010101 010101100 10111111 010101 01011011 0110011101 01100101 11011001001 11000101 10010101 10010100 101101100 11001100 1001100101 10010100 110101 010101000 010101010101 110101 1101010101 1001000101 01010100 0101010101 010101 11011101 01100101 0100010101 11011101 110100101 11010111 1001011101 1001010111 10010101 11011101 110101 100110111 1101011100 11011011 1111010100 1101010 1011010101 110001 11110101010 00010010 1001110100 010101 101111101 11111101 0101010011 1101110100 11010100 1101010100 111001 1100100 11011100 11111111 110111 1111 11110111001 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1844
  • Average number of words per stanza: 325
  • Amount of lines: 322
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, i, and, of, in, his, or, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, that, and, or, his are repeated.

    The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Ginestra,;
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