This is an analysis of the poem Messer Dante A Messer Bruno that begins with:

ESSENDO pazzo, il bue al guado intoppa,
E volta e sfugge e d'acqua và digiuno:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001011110100 110111101100 11101110110 100110101010 101101110010 100110110001 1001001100 11011111010 101101110010 11100110011 1101010001110 1000100001 100000010110 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; e, il are repeated.

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

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