This is an analysis of the poem Night-Scene In Genoa that begins with:

In Genoa, when the sunset gave
Its last warm purple to the wave,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccde ffeeffggeehhiicchhfffbbeeiiddffcciibbjkjjiijjffjjblffddii hhccmmhhmmaaiiiicX eemmiinndd deddiiiiccoommffbbiicX ppffjk iijkiiffaaiillddjjffjjaX hheedXeeed hhhhhhdX jjqqhh rrmmiibb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,57,18,10,22,6,24,10,8,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010010111 01110001 11011101 11010101 110010111 1100101001 11010101 10110001 11111101 110100111 11010101 101101001 1100011010 110101010 1100101001 10111101 110011101 01011101 010101001 100100101 11010001 11110101 11010101 101100101 1011111010 0100101110 110101101 01010101 01011101 110101001 110101001 10110111 10110101 10010101 01010001 01110101 110111011 01010101 01100001 010010111 11100101 01111101 01010001 11111101 101010101 101110001 11010100 110010101 01010101 11010111 01000101 11111101 01010011 10100111 10110101 101110001 11011101 11010001 0100101010 11100101 011100101 11111111 11100111 11111111 01010101 101100111 010111001 11110101 11110100 11011101 11110101 110101010 110101010 11110101 11010001 11011111 01110101 11011001 11011101 11010101 11111001 11010101 100101001 11010101 01011101 01011101 101010101 01110101 11111001 10010101 1111001001 11011101 11110101 10110111 01010101 11111101 01010101 11011101 01010110 11010111 01001101 01110111 01010101 11110111 01001100 101100011 10110101 11110111 11101101 11011111 10110101 11010101 01011101 11111101 01011010 11000101 11110011 01001011 01010001 01010101 10010100 11111101 100100101 01010111 11010100 11110101 11010101 11011111 0101100111 101011101 110100001 1111010010 011111010 110100010 111101110 11010101 10110101 11011110 11110111 01111001 11011101 11011101 01110101 11110111 111101100 111110010 0100101010 11010101 01010111 11100101 01111100 01010111 01010101 11101001 11010101 110101010 110101010 111111010 110100110 110111010 110101010 11111101 010101010 10111101 101101101 11010111 10010101 10101110010 011101010 110110111 01010101 11010111 10110001 11110101 10010101 11000101 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 578
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 177
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; he, his, and are repeated.

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

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