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

Italian Campagna 1309, the open road
Bah! I have sung women in three cities,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcd cbeXfX bgfXXaXbXhhfX gi XXifbbbX ejcX BDdbd jiXi gagf id BDbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,6,13,2,8,4,5,4,4,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010010101 1111100110 100101 1101001 111110 11111110 1101100 1011000 1111 10010101 1111011 10010111 111 01001100110 11110 111011 101110 10010001001 1100110 1000101 11010001 111101011 110001010 1101 10111 101110100 010111 111111 010101 111111100 11011 1110111 111110110 1111110 111101111 0111010111 1100 111100110 10011 101001 1110111 10011101001 1011111 1001101 1111110101 1111101 1010111 1111101 11101011 1111111 101001111 0010001 111100110 10011 1010011 00110010 011110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; cino, of, my, lord, you are repeated.

    The author used the same word 'pollo at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Cino;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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