This is an analysis of the poem Inferno Canto03 that begins with:

Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX abc XXd Xae cfX gad Xhf iiX XXX gbj XXX klX XXg cmg XlX gdc XXl nog XXh ldg XXX idX XXX mgg XXX ggc aXX ipX eaX gXg XhX jmc hXX dpX XXX qkc XXX lig XXX rpl XXa aag XXX ebp XXX icg XXX mqr pXX XoX cXX oXX aeX onq eXX cgg XhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111110 11111110010 1111111001 110100010010 1101000101 1101110101 1001111010 1001100100 110010111110 1011111000 1101010100 0101010101 1000111101 1111011010011 1010101101 0111010101 0111010100 01010011101 101110100 1011101010 11101101111 1111110111 0101011111 1001100100110 110011010100 1110101100 111011110 1101111101 101110111010 11001001101 10101011010110 1110010100 101001101000 1111010111 11010100010 111100001000 111111001101 11010101100 111000101 1101000111 0101110101 1110010101 10100101101 100011101 11110011100 1111000111 0100010101 1111111111 011100010 0111010010 101111101111 11000100010 1001010100 1101111101 1000110011100 10100101110 1110101010 1101010101 0101110101 1111010111 110101011010 101011110 1111111110 1111011101 10010011111 11010101110 110011010010 101011100 110101011010 11011010001 0101010101 1101011011 10100110010 010101110100 110100111110 11010001010 01000110110 1100111101 100111110110 11100010110 1001001110010 01011101010 11011011010 100101010010 110101101 0111001111 101000101 111000101010 11010001110 11010111011 1011001011 11110101010 110011101 1111111101 1111011011 11000100101 1011011010110 100001100110 110011110110 0101110101 11010101010 11110011110 1101100101010 11001001010 1110110100 11101101010 1101011111 11010101000 11001011010 1111100100 111010100 0111011101 0101110101 1111011101 101101010000 10110010110 1111011100 1011010101 1111010101 11110001010 10001001101 110101101100 011001110010 1111010100 0100010100 1001100100 10100111110 1001001100010 11001111010 1101110001 1101010101 11001111100 1100111110 11001101110 110001010100 0111110011 1100111111 10110111001 1111001110 10100110111 11101011100 1110010111 01010100110 11111001101 11010101101 0111001011 1010011101 1111010111 11011101010 11110101010 1100101111 10110011010 111101010100 11011011101 0101010100 11110001010 1011101000110 1001111111 10011110110 11010111110 1111110101 10110111010 1101011011 1100010101010 100101101 11010011001 111011100 1101010101 1100110110 110110001010 11010100101010 01110101010 1101100101 00010101011 1111110010 1011001110 1111111100 1101011101 11010111010 1111111101 11101011010 1001011110 1110101110 111000111010 1101110011 01010101010 111010011110 1011111 1111111100 11110010110 1101010111 111111111100 10110101 1100110010 110011010111 1101010101 0101000101 1101010101 110010111 101011000110 101100011 11110101010 11110111011 1111110101 10000111010 100111101111111 110101111000 11000111110 1101110111 0110011011 111001110 11000110100 101011111 11100010011 1001011101 1111111101 01100110110 1010001010 111010100 01010001110 1100001101 0111001101 110011001 1010001011110 101101011 1001010101 1111010101 1101010101 10 1000111100 1001110110110 11011011100 10000101010 0100011111 1101010101 11101111010 1010111110 111101010 11110101010 1001110101 1101010101 1011110010 1011111011 10100111 101001010101 10111010101 110101010010 110100100110 11100100110 1111011010 11110101010 0101010101 11110100010 10110110010 11110111110 111010111110 1011010101 1101010101 11110110110 1001011100 111101100 1111010110 1100110101 10101000100 0101110101 1101000110 110101100 1111101000 0111100111 0111000101 01110110110 1101111010 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 93
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 318
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; me, per, si, va, and, their, to, of, e, 'l are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words per, through, here, che, that, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).

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