This is an analysis of the poem Costanza that begins with:
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fell
Thro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbccddbbaaeeffccggeeeecchhXafafiiffccjj X aakkll jjffiiccjjddmmjjeeeeddjjbbnndffdffXlggbllbn eeccffffccddffjX aaiioojjXXggaaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,39,1,6,43,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111 1011000101 1001110101 1001110101 11001110101 110110101 1101010101 1101011101 1011010001 1111110001 1101011111 1111011101 0101111101 1111110101 1101010100 1101110101 11110101001 1001011111 1111011111 0100011111 10010110001 1111000111 1101011101 1101011101 10110111110 11111100110 11011000101 0011010101 1111110101 1101111111 010101 1101 0111010101 110111001001 1011011101 1010011101 0101001101 111101101101 10110101001 1101010101 0111010001 1101110111 1011010101 11 010111101 1101010101 0100110101 1101011101 10110101110 10110101010 1111010101 100100101001 1101110111 1100011101 10010000111 01010000101 1111000101 1111110101 0111011111 1011010101 1100100101 01000010001 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101100101 1001001011 10101111010 110110001010 1100010101 0011110111 1110010101 0111100101 1101001111 1011010011 1011010101 0011111101 0100111111 10110101110 0101010010 0111011111 1101101001 1101110101 10011101010 01011101110 1101110111 11001101111 0101010111 10110101010 11101101010 10010101001 1000101 1111 01001010101 1101010101 1101100101 1101111111 1101011101 1011010001 0111010101 1011110101 1101011001 1100010101 0101001101 0101110111 0101000101 111100100101 1111000110 11010101001 0011110101 1101100101 0111110101 1110011111 0111111101 1110110111 110101001001 111110 11001 110111101 01110010101 1011011111 1110111101 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 699
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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