This is an analysis of the poem Fra Pedro that begins with:

Golden lights and lengthening shadows,
Flings the splendid sun declining,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcX aaXa dbce fXbX XXgX abhc fgiX jdik blXd cjck mgja alXX dcib jadj dake XeXd mddX ibjd jddd ajjb jaiX kbkX jckh bkai lgfX jciX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110011 10101010 100101010 10101110 10101011 11111010 10111110 11111110 11101010 10100010 01100010 1010010011 100101110 10111000 10101010 10001010 10101110 101101100 10001110 10101011 10101110 00111010 10111110 11101010 11101110 100111010 11111010 00110000 10001010 111110010 100101010 10111110 10101010 10001111 11101110 11111110 10101110 11000010 10001010 11101110 10101010 01101010 10100010 101010010 10101010 10101010 10111010 11100011 1110110010 00111010 10111010 111010110 11101010 10111010 100110010 00101110 10111010 101011110 100111110 11101110 100111100 10101011 10101110 11001010 10101010 11101010 10101110 10101100 10101110 10110010 10101010 1001010 10101110 101001010 10100010 10111010 11101110 11111010 01000010 10100110 10001010 01101010 11101011 1011111000 11111010 11101010 11001011 11110110 100111010 11100110 11011110 00101110 11110110 11111010 11101010 10101010 100111110 10101010 10111010 11111100 10101011 10101010 10100110 10001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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