This is an analysis of the poem Boccaccio that begins with:
One day upon a topmost shelf
I found a precious prize indeed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX efXfgdgX hihiidiX igigjdjX kakaldlX didibdbX aiaiedXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 11010101 10111101 01110101 11110101 11010101 0101100 11011101 10110001 011101010 1100101 10010011 110011101 01011111 0100100 11011101 11010101 01001101 10011101 11110001 11011111 11110101 1111100 01011101 01011101 01011101 01110111 01110100 11111001 0010000101 0101100 11111111 11010101 11011111 01010111 11110101 111100101 10010101 0100100 111111001 01101111 11111111 01111001 01010111 11010101 10010111 10011100 11110101 10110101 01111101 11111111 11110111 11111001 1100011010 0100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word boccaccio at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Boccaccio;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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