This is an analysis of the poem Paradiso: Canto I that begins with:

The glory of Him who moveth everything
Doth penetrate the universe, and shine...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc ded fgh ija dfc hke XXd lie ldm ied kme ilj cbd gcb gee jbe eXb jje ncb nef lfj dfj iil dcd mbe nef Xfj ede ojp neo XeX jbj ejX lpj lij cjj jcb cbb bfk gkX cee jjp ieo edl fce XXj jhXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001110101 1101010111 0111100101 01110110101 1111101001 1111100101 01010100010 1101100111 11000100101 1011000101 11010010011 1101001011 1001010101 10110100110 1100010101 1100110111 1001111101 1111000101 1000110111 1101110111 1001001100 11001111001 110110011 1011111101 1111101101 1111010011 01011111110 1101011100 11010101010 01110101010 101010111 1001010100 1101010110 0101010111 0101010101 1101110101 0101110001 1000111111 11011000110 0101100101 1101010011 10111100110 1111011101 1101111101 1101110101 1100010111 1111110101 10010101010 1101010101 010001110 1001011101 1001010101 0101010111 1101110111 11010101010 10110110001 1101010101 1111011101 1110010101 11011100010 1100011101 11010111010 10010101001 0101010101 11001011110 1011000101 1101110001 11010001111 1001010101 0101100001 010000010101 11110010001 01110101110 1011100010 1101111011 11011111010 010011101000 110011100110 110111010100 10111101110 10101110101 0100011011 1001010111 1001010101 1111111111 010011011 1001110101 11011101011 0101001111 11110111001 11101111100 11010001001 11111100100 00110111010 11110111110 1001110101 1110001110 0101011101 0111011101 10111001001 0101011011 01011001001 11011110010 11001011001 1101010101 11010101011 00010101001 100010101010 00101110101 1101110001 1111101100 1111010101 10011010111 0101001101 01010100101 00010101010 0101010101 1100010111 0101000111 1111110111 0100110110 100101001010 0111110101 1101100101 1101010011 1101010101 1001110101 01100010001 0101000101 1110011101 010101010010 1101011101 00111111010 1001001100 1001011101 1111010111 1101110100 01110100011 1001001001 0101110101 10110101001 10110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 48
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, with, and, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.

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  • summary of Paradiso: Canto I;
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