This is an analysis of the poem Inferno Canto02 that begins with:

Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno
toglieva li animai che sono in terra ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc def bXb ghc XXX cXf hXX ifj hXX Xih gXg gkl XXX gmn aaa ojn XXX okg XiX dej iXX pgh XXX hhX gXg llm bXX iim XXX Xmj XXX mlg XXX dim XbX ihi bbX lhi XbX Xij bXX mhn XXX mqp XXb gji XXX mmX XXa iXm Xah qll XXX fhg XaX poX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111001110 1001100110010 101010110101 0111010011 0101010001 0111001111 100000100110 11100110110 110111110 01010101010 10010010010 1100010111 11110100110 1111001110 111111000 1101110111 1100111111 1111000101 10100101110 101101110 10110101110 1101011111 1001010101 0111111101 110111001010 10001001100 1001111000 111111010 11110100110 00010100110 111100011 0101110010100 1010110111111 100100010010 1100010100 1111111111 111001101000 1101010111100 111001111100 1111010100 100100101110 01010110100 111110101110 11000111010 11101011010 1001011101 0100010101 01000100110 11000111110 10111010 11010011010100 1101010101 1101011001 01001101010 100111100 1101000101 110001101100 1001010101 0111010011 0101010101 110110011101 1011001011010 1100111011011 1111111100 1111100111 11110111110 1111110101000 1011100111 1100100111100 11010101010 11110101110 11111111110 111110111 11101010100 1111001011 1111110111 1111010111 1111011110 111001010010 1100100110 11110010010 1110010111 0101110110 01111101010 11111001100 1011000100 1001110100 101110111110 0101011101 10110011100 111110100 11100100110 1101010100 11011100101 01010100010 1101011111 11010101111 100101011110 1111111111 1110010001 1111111111 1111010111 101011011100 11011010110 111100101100 11011111010 01010111110 1101011001 100110111110 110000111010 10100101100 0101010001 11010101110 1100110111 10100010100 111101011010 11010110100 1100010010 1101010001 1101111011 10011101010 111100101000 111011110 11111001010 01000101110 11110101110 11011111100 111101100100 1111110110100 01111101010 1011010101 1111011111 1101111100100 11111001110 10111110010 1101010101 10010011101 1101111001 11100111010 1011011010 101111110 1111001111 1101111001 1101111111 1011001101 1111010010 101001110010 1101110111 11110111110 1100110101 1010111011 1001101010 11111011010 11001001101 0101010111 0101000101 101001110000 11001111110 111110011100 1100111100 00010101110 1111011110 11011011110 011011001010 010101101101 11111110110 0100010100 1101111010 1011110100010 10010000110 100110110110 10110101110 1111110101 1111010101 10111111 1001011101 01111110 11000101010 11010100111 1101001101 111011111 1110100111 11010100110 1001001111 1011001011 1101010101 1010111110 110100010110 1111100111 0101010101 111001011111 11110101010 1011001100 111111001110 111100111000 1011110110 01000101101 110111011010 1010011010 11111101010 1110110010 101000100100 0111010111 10010100010 1100101110 1110011110 111011010 11101001101 1111111111 1111110101 11011101110 1101111110 11110011111110 1111010001 1111011101 01110101010 110111101 01111010110 101010011 1101011100 1101001101 1111110101 10111101010 10001110100 100111100101 0101101110 1100110100 11011101001 1011100010 11010010001 1111110111 1111000101 1101010101 1101110101 1100111001 10001010110 111101101011 1111111101 1110010011 11010110110 111110 11011110 110110011 1001111101 1111111100 1111011100 101111100 10111111110 11110101110 1111111110 01110101010 11110111010 100010110010 1001101111110 1101010001010 1101010101 1111010111 1111010111 11101101010 11010101111 1100101010 1011010101 1111010011 1111110101 1100101110 11010100010 00101111 10101001111 11110001110 0111110101 111100011100 111010011 11100111100 1011110111 0101010101 0111110101 11111010 1101101110 1110111101 1101001101 111111001100 1011011101 1011100101010 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 96
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 330
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; o, io, i, che, that, you, non, la, why, to, tu, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, e, and, de, non, do, perch, to are repeated.

    The author used the same words o, lucia at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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