This is an analysis of the poem Margaret Of Cortona that begins with:

Fra Paolo, since they say the end is near,
And you of all men have the gentlest eyes,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefXgghfcihjbi bXabbXbbbbbXfifdXf fdhaXabkjfgifgdblmddidhi hklfdmcbbXkkldfeefbXnk dnfikciigdhbkfkjfckkbgidffibhfgdbkkfabfghkkkdbknkdegdhkdf oddibi chfbcdcfgd lhifmgfifbomnb kb odXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,18,24,22,57,6,10,14,2,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 11011101001 1111010111 11111111110 100010100101 1101110011 1011101001100 01001010001 1101010101 01011101010 1111010111 1001010111 111100011 0100101101 01011101110 1101010111 1011111101 1111110101 11010101110 1111011101 110101100 1101110101 1101001000 11011101001 1101011100 1111110101 01010101010 11101111110 1101110111 1101110111 1111110101 1111001101 1111100101 01011111010 0101111111 1101011101 0111111101 1101000101 0101110101 10001010100 11110010101 1101110101 10111110010 110010111110 01010110110 11010111110 0101010101 11011111010 1100110001 01011111110 1111011111 1101111111 11111011110 1101010101 11011110001 1101110001 110000100010 0111101101 1110110101 0111010001 11011101110 1111010111 1111010101 1111011111 1111110100100 11011011111 11010101110 01001011101 0101000101 11110101110 1111110101 1111010111 1001011111 1101010101 1101110111 01010110101 1111110100 1111010101 111101001110 100010100001 1111110111 1111111111 1111000101 01111101100 11010011111 0011111011 1011110111 11111111011 1111010101 1101111111 1111000101 1101000101 10110101010 1101110111 11110101110 1101110111 11110111110 100011100 11011001110 1101110111 1111000111 11010101010 1111111101 1101111101 1111111101 1111010101 1100010001 1111010111 01001010101 1011110001 01111100101 01010111010 0101010111 0111000100 1101000111 0101010001 1101000101 1101010101 1101000100 01010010111 0101011100 1100110011 1101011111 1100111101 1011111111 11001000101 1001110011 1011110101 0101010111 01010111110 1101010100 1111110111 011011011 10010001010 1001000101 0010111111 11111101110 1111110111 11111101110 1111011101 11010111010 1111001101 0111010001 1111011 1111 1101111101 00010101010 010011101 1101101101 1111011111 1111011101 1011001111 0101111101 1111 101111 1111010101 01011100111 1011111011 11101111010 0101100111 0111010101 1101010111 11010111101 11001110110 11010111110 1101101100 1100110101 1110 110111 11011111 110 0011 1110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 684
  • Average number of words per stanza: 131
  • Amount of lines: 173
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, for, i, as, not, me, to, my, he, christ, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, he, the are repeated.

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

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