This is an analysis of the poem Canto XXXVI that begins with:
A Lady asks me
I speak in season...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdXebbfXgfXh XheXXiheifhXjX bbakheeXhlhkXdj aiXgXXjibcXecmkhfi gfXmnXkXccbXkglhX XanXl XcXXXXbXcccXXXnXnXgXXXiXXXXbngXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,14,15,18,17,5,32,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 11010 11101101110 1011111101 110011011 10011000110 10111110 1110110 0111001010 111001110 111011 10010110 010110010 101011110100 10111001 110010 0101 110100111 11110011100 010100110 10001 0001 100011110101 1010101000101100 01111011110 100111001101 0101011000 10011001001 11110110100 1011011001010 10110011010 11111 01010100101 100100010111 10010101101 100101011001 00100 1110101 1100100100110 1010001 111111001 11101010 10010101 1001111 10100 100 0100 101010010 1001011011010 100111 1000101 101010 111101110110 011011 1011001101 101100111001 101110011001 01111010 1011011010010 10100101001 1101110 0011111 11010110110 11010110010 11110110 10011110 10110110 01010110 1011001 11000111010 1001 110111 101101010 1001011010 100110 1001110110 1001001001100 1001 010110100 1110110 10011 1111011110 101011000 010111001100 1001010011000 100011101001 100101001001010 111101100 1111111111100 111111101000 1000010110 10010110 100100101 010110010 1010110010 10101000010 1101111000 0010110 1010 10100 111110 1010111101110 0100110010 100010010 1111100100 10010100000101000 10100101011 010010000 110 0110 10100010 0101010 010110 10111110 100010 1110111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; his, so, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, five are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines manicheans, vacuum, castles are repeated).
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- summary of Canto XXXVI;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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