This is an analysis of the poem Vittoria that begins with:

Wise was the word the wise man spake, who said,
'Angelo was the only man to whom God gave... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeaebXXafa dgaaXXdaabgX cfae geaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011111 100101010111 1101010101 0101010111 111111010 0101110111 010011101 1111110101 1100110011 1001000101 1101110111 0111011111 1101111111 0111011111 1110111100 1111010111 1101010101 0101000111 11010011101 1101010011 11010011100 1101010011 0100011111 010011100100 0101011101 0100 100111 0101101111 01011111 0111 0100111 0101010101 11011111111 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, not, fourfold are repeated.

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

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

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