This is an analysis of the poem Inferno Canto 01 that begins with:
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX bcb adX ecf XXX ffg XXX hci XjX jdf XXj hce XXX hcc XaX ikc XXa lml nXn jop XXX eXh XXX hcq XjX roc jXj dqr XXq qcq XsX ttb sXX hXd XaX boo XmX emc mnX com nXX hhm Xan mhX XdX qXd XnX nme naX mbX Xda XcX cXX qXp Xfs mlp XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011010 110011010100 111001010100 1111010111 11110101010 1111011111 1010011101010 101010011011 1110100110 1001010101 1101011100 1100010111 101011011 1110111110 1011111 1101010101 1001000101 1101010111 10111101010 10011100111 1110101000 11010111110 0111110111 0111010011 1111111110 111000101 11011011100 1111010001 010101000010 1101110111 10010110011 1011101100 1101010111 1111110101 01010101110 1101110111 10111011010 11101110100 1111011010 1011111100 1101010111 01011111001 11111101000 100111000110 110101000110 1111100101 1001010111 01010010111 1100110100 110100100110 11101101010 1011010100 1101010101 1101110101 1110011011010 100101110100 1111101101110 1111010101 1001110101 1111110101 110101100010 101010011010 111100010100 1111011101 1101010111 0101000101 111110100110 101001011100 111100111 1011010111 0111010101 1111001101 10011001100 11110001111 101101010100 01100100010 0111010101 0011110100 1110111 1110101010 1101001101 10111111010 11010101010 11011100110 10111111110 111110111 110110101 1101100101 1111010001 01111110010 1010110110 11100111001 1110111110 01111100010 10010111010 01010101011 110101111 100101111100 111011101 1101110111 010100100010 11010101010 1011101100 1110101110 11010100100 0101001101 0100110101 0101011101 11111000100 1111111011 101011011100 1011110111 0101110101 010100111010 111110101 1100010010010 1100011111 1111111101 1101111111 11110101010 11100001010 1000110111100 11101001010 1101010101 0111110001 11110100110 10101011100 1001110010 111111011010 1111011100 101011000111 100011001010 10001101011 11010110010 100110100 11011011111 1011010100 11110011010 10110101110 11001010110110 111011101100 1111111100 11011000010 0100011101 1011101110 101011110 111100101100 11010111010 1010011101 110101010 1111000101 11101100010 110011011010 1111010100 1111010001 010011010010 111101001101 1101101101 10010110001 101111101010 11011101010 1101010111 10110101011 10011010111110 1110101110 101110011010 1111010011 1111110111 11111011110 111110111010 11010111010 1111011101 0101011101 01011111010 101101110110 1001110010 101110011110 1101111101 11110101010 111111110100 0110101010 101110011 1111010100100 1000101111100 1101111100 10111010100 1101011111 110101011110 110110110 0110010111 0111010101 1111000101 1111001100110 11110110010 110110111111 01001101010 1111010100 11111100110 1011100001100 11100100101110 111110110 1101010111 11010101011 0101010110 1011010110 101010110 11101110110 11010111110 11010101110 0101100111 11010010101 111110100 100110110110 100111010011 01010101 110101100 101101110 11110011110 1110101000 110111110010 0111010101 11111101110 101111101100 111101101110 110011110100 1111110111 01011111110 1001110101 1100010010 101100100100 1110011010 11110101010 1101010011 1100010101 11001011100 110110110 101100110 1111111110 0101011101 0101100110 00111111010 10010111110 111101110 0111011111 01110111011 1110011101 110100011110 1011000111 11101111110 0111001101 1110010001 01011100010 01101001101 1011111010 1011011010 1101011101 1001001100 110111000100 11001010101100 11011111000 10110101110 11011010111 11110101111 11110101110 11110110100 111011011010 11011110010 0110010111 11110110110 11110111000 101111011010 11111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 92
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 317
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, che, and, e, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, e, and, tu are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Inferno Canto 01;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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