This is an analysis of the poem Saint Romualdo that begins with:
I give God thanks that I, a lean old man,
Wrinkled, infirm, and crippled with keen pains... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfffghhddbhfhcbffcgcidhd aibibbjffkgjdadlchmnhbbhkXgen beadfbfeeknbefnbheabbfbhbhbobbfgbXgcnehfhXahfkfafaphdfochdbalhhX kecaXfacdfbhnmnojcqXnmqfphcabapaghhrdabjooaanerbaoppsXbhheqpcjXgrdfpXaa hhddbgsgXahhafbhrbhqocsbidbhdbhfefjtcdbjrseb hmoisahhfrd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,29,64,71,44,52,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 1001110011 10110101001 1101010111 11010001111 100100101 1011111011 0101110001 0101010101 1100011011 0011110001 0111011101 1110110111 1101111101 0101000101 1111110101 10010100101 0101111111 1101011101 0111001101 1011110001 1111010101 0101010111 11001011001 01001000101 0001010101 110110001 0100110111 01001010101 11110101111 0100110101 0101111101 1011010111 1011001101 1011110111 10011010101 0100010101 1101000111 0101000101 1000110001 0100011100 0100010101 0100010101 1101010101 11010100010 0101111111 10010011010 010010001 0100111101 1111111111 0010110101 1011110111 0100010001 1101111101 11111101010 1101010111 1001111001 0011110101 0111010101 1101011101 1011010101 10110100101 1100110111 1111011001 1011010001 1110001101 0110111111 11101110011 1101111111 0011110101 0110011101 1111111101 0001010101 01010101001 1111101101 0101011101 0101110101 01110001001 11111101111 1111010101 01011101111 1111000111 0111011101 1111010001 1011010011 0100010101 1011010001 1111110101 1111111101 1101010101 10110011100 01011111010 001001001 1011110100 0101111111 1111011101 10000100111 1101111111 01011110111 0101010100 01001110001 1101010111 1001110111 0101111101 0101010101 10001110101 1101011001 1101110111 11111010101 1001010111 0101110111 1001110101 0110111111 0100010111 1100010111 1001100111 1001001101 1001011101 11010101010 01010110011 0101010111 0011001100 0111010111 11010101001 11011100111 1111010101 11010001100 0111000101 1101011101 0101010111 1010010101 0101010111 01011111010 0101011111 10001011101 1101111111 1111111111 0111110111 0101111111 0101110101 0111010101 0101110100 11000100101 0101111111 0110011101 1110010100 1101110101 1101111101 11010010101 11001110101 1101010100 0111010101 1101010111 10111011011 0100010101 11110010101 1001101111 0101010100 1001100100 10110110111 0111110101 0100010101 00110100101 1111110101 11110010011 01110010111 1101010111 0101010101 1111010100 0100011101 01110100101 1101100101 0100010111 1111111011 1101010111 11010111100 0111110101 0101011101 1111010111 0100110111 1101010101 1111110111 1101100111 1101011101 00110101010 1101011011 1111011100 10010001101 1111110101 01001010111 1001110100 1101110101 11011110010 1101110001 1110110101 1111001100 0101000011 1011110111 01010001001 01010011001 01001000101 0101011000 01011010101 1100011001 1101111101 1101010101 01110010101 0111010111 1001010101 1101010100 0101110001 1101001101 1111010101 1101001001 1101010001 1001010101 1111011111 0111110111 1101011101 0100110100 1111110111 1101110111 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1110110111 0101110101 0111011111 010101011 0101010111 11001011111 01010101101 0101010101 11001101100 1101011101 0111010111 1011010101 0101110001 0111011101 1111010111 1011100011 0111110001 1101110101 1110010111 01010100010 0111110101 11111101000 1011100111 10011011101 1011101010 1101001101 11010100101 0101001101 0101000101 11110110101 1100011011 1111010101 01001001000 1111111101 1111110101 1111001101 1101010001 0100100100 00101010001 1101110101 1101110101 1101000111 1001110101 01001010101 1011111111 0111010100 1101001101 1100010101 1001010001 1101111111 1101010100 1111011101 1011000101 0101000101 1111010101 1111011101 1101011100 1111111101 1101001111 0011101001 10000010101 0100010001 1011110100 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1765
- Average number of words per stanza: 315
- Amount of lines: 290
- 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; and, my, by, of, i, his, him, to, it, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, this, i, with are repeated.
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- summary of Saint Romualdo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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