This is an analysis of the poem Piccolo Valzer Viennese that begins with:

A Vienna ci sono dieci ragazze,
una spalla dove piange la morte...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XX XXX aXXaXX XXXXXXbX XXXXXcdX XXbXXXXXXX e f gegXcX Bf fhb iXXcjd BfgbaiXg bgdbheijXBfijfggfdg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,3,6,8,8,10,1,1,6,2,3,6,8,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101101010 10101111 11101010100 111001100 1101010 101011110 10101010 101010111010 101010101010 110111111 111011011 101101011010110 111001111010 110000100 10001001100 110101010 101011011000 10101010 10101010100100 00101101010 110011101110 101011100 1110011000 110100101001 110110 10101010 10101011010110 10010110110101 1010011001100 100110100 1100110101 10011011011 1000100111 10101010 101010110101100 0010100011 110111011011 101111100 1000110101011 11010001011000 1111011101010 10110110 1001100110110 10010 100111 0010111101 01011011 10100110 100100011 000100101 100101011 1111 10111 101101101 001011010 1101001 111111111 001110101 10101011 0010110 011111011 101101010 1111 1010101 001011110 011110101 10011010 1101011 1110101 1111001 1111 10111011 0111111111 00101101 101010100 101010101 101110001 101100110 1111 10100111101 001010101 000100101 110100111 101110111 110101110 100110111 111110101 0011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ahi, questo, valzer, ti, io, amo, di, la, of, waltz, ay, little, you, love, i, in, there, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, there are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines waltz is repeated).

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  • summary of Piccolo Valzer Viennese;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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