This is an analysis of the poem Tasso And His Sister that begins with:

She sat, where on each wind that sigh'd,
The citron's breath went by,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcada bebeacac fafaadad ghghijij aaaaklkl lblbabab mamahlhl ahaXgigiXblblllll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 010111 10110100 1010101 010111101 111101 11010111 001101 11110101 0101110 11011101 1111010 011100111 101101 01110101 110101 110101001 010011 10010101 0100101 01010111 011100 00010111 01001 11011001 110111 110100111 1100101 01111101 110101 01010101 110101 11011111 110101 10110101 1101101 11011111 111101 10110101 110101 01010111 010111 01011111 011101 11111111 011111 11001111 100111 111100111 110111 01101101 011111 11111111 111101 11010101 111101 11010111 110101 10011111 0101010 11011111 110101 11010111 1000101 01010111 0101101 11010101 010001 11010101 010101 10011101 100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, and, he are repeated.

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

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