This is an analysis of the poem The Visions Of Petrarch that begins with:

Being one day at my window all alone,
So manie strange things happened me to see,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcdcdXXXXX XXebfgXcbXhXii gbcbeXXXXdXXXX gagXXXjXdXdXXh akXXbgbcXXXadd blXlededXXfbjj dkdkXdkddgdXgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111110101 111110101 110110101 1111010101 1111010110 1101000101 0101110101 010110111 1101001101 1101101111 101110110 1001111001 111001101 111111010 1011011010 11010111 01001010100 1101110101 0110011111 0110011101 1101011001 1101011101 110111101 1101110 1111110010 11110100 1001001111 1110111001 1101001101 100111101 0101110101 1101111101 1101011000 10011110 101101111 110101111 01111010 1101010101 1101011011 1101011101 111111010 111111110 0101100101 001010101001 1001001011 0101010101 1110101010 1100010111 0011000101 111110011 1101111101 110101011 00101111101 1110111001 111101010 0111011100 1101000101 0101110101 1111011110 1011011101 11110101 1000111101 1111111111 11101010101 1001100101 0110011010 1110011011 1111100101 111101101 1111111101 111101011 1101101111 1111011100 1111110001 110111110 1111010101 101011100 0101010101 10011010101 1101110101 0111110101 1101110001 11011011000 1010101000 1110010101 011110111 110111101 0101010011 11110111 11011111 111101111 0101110101 111101101 110111100 11110111101 101111011 11100100110 11111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 598
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 98
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, i, in, and are repeated.

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