This is an analysis of the poem Her Monument, The Image Cut Thereon that begins with:
FROM THE ITALIAN OF LEOPARDI
Such wast thou,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabcbdXef aghigdhhfafj XjXehXeif jicdikbdig dXdfiXej gikjiiiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,12,9,10,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000100100 111 111 1101110100 0101110 100101 1100010100 1101 110100 1001000101 1111111111 1111010 010011111 0110110101 11110101010 1101101101 1111001 1111010101 1101010111 111001 1011 1101111101 1111100 10110101011 01010110100 1111010100 0111 1011011001 0110010 11001100101 10010101011 111001 100101 0001111101 0101010101 1101011101 10011001000 1011011101 101101 0101000101100 10010000010 10010101010 110101110010 10111110101 0111000111 1101010111 10100 100 1101010100 11010 011 111101 1111110111 1011 100101 1001001111 1101 10110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 58
- 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; of, thou, ye, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sole, o, that are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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