This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Conradin that begins with:

No cloud to dim the splendour of the day
Which breaks o'er Naples and her lovely bay,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbaa ddXeaaeeXfccgghh ggbbccbiiccXgaXdd ajiiddkXiieecX fXbXccddeellhh iilllleXbb mmmmaaaba iiffddccccnnccmmooffd deeXcggpp llajiikkii iiaaggkbeebbddiiiiiiaa eegXmmeeX mm aaffhhe aeddmmqqrrcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,16,17,14,14,10,9,21,9,10,22,9,2,7,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010001 11101010101 1111011101 01001110101 001001011101 11011010101 11011100101 0101010101 1111000101 11010100101 01010010101 01110100101 11010101001 0101111101 1001110101 1101011101 1101010001 1001110001 0110011010 0101000101 1001010111 11100100101 11000110101 1100010101 11110100101 10110100101 111101101 1011011101 1101110101 01010101001 11010100111 1111010101 11010100111 1101010101 10010100101 1101000101 1000101000101 01110011110 11001011101 010010110111 010100100 10101011111 010100001001 1111110101 11010010100 11011110111 0101110001 1001001001 11011001001 1011010100 110111010 11010101001 1011001101 1111010101 11111100101 0101110001 0101010100 1111010101 01011101001 1101010101 010100101010 1001010101 0101011001 1101011101 1101010101 10110000101 1101010101 0101011101 00101101101 1100011011 1101001101 1001100101 0101010101 1001010101 0101110100 01010010001 0101011101 1101010111 0101011100 1101000101 1111010001 1111010001 1100010001 1101011111 0101110101 1111110101 1011110111 11111100100 100101011 1 1101001111 0111010101 1111100111 0101110101 1111000101 0101001101 1100100101 101101101111 100010100001 1111000101 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111110001 01110001001 1101010101 1111011100 0101000101 0100010111 1111111111 1101010111 1011010111 10100101001 1011110101 0101110101 11001010111 0001110101 0111011101 1101100101 1101010001 1101000101 1101011101 1001010101 0100010100 1111010111 1101000101 11110101010 111101010110 10111101001 1101111101 110101001110 11010101110 01100001001 1101111111 11010100011 0101010101 10111101010 1101011101 11010101001 1101111011 1011110111 0111010001 11110101111 0101110111 01010100001 0101010001 1001111101 01110101101 1101001101 0101000101 10010111110 01010010101 0101010101 011101011001 11110011101 1101111100 11010101011 1000011101 1111010101 10001011 100 11110100111 110010010001 0110101001 01110000101 1101010111 0101110011 1111110101 1011010101 0101110101 1 111011001 1111011111 010001010111 0101010101 0101111101 1111010101 1101010101 0111111101 0101010001 1011010101 010101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 496
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 182
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, of, his, o'er, in, doth, him, that, no, to are repeated.

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

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