This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written At Venice In 1865 that begins with:
Sleep, Venice, sleep! the evening gun resounds
Over the waves that rock thee on their breast;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaacacdedfgcbc dhXhieiebhbhgdgdjejejkXk kikilflfhkhkaeaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,24,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010110 1001111111 0101010101 1101110111 1101110111 110010100101 1001100111001 01010011001 1111110101 0111000101 01100110001 01001010100 1101001101 100110101101 10010010101 01001110001 1111011101 1011011101 11011010100 10110101001 1101000101 110100101001 01010010111 1101100101 1111100101 1101010101 11001000111 0111010101 0011010011 1011010101 11010111001 1111010101 10011111111 1010110111 1111110101 1100110001001 1101010101 01011011111 1101111101 1111010111 1101011001 1001011101 10111011101 0100110111 1111110111 1101111100 1101101101 10010111100 1001111101 11110101001 0101010101 1101001101 11001110101 1101001101 0111111111 01001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 829
- Average number of words per stanza: 144
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; thy, then, whose are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whose is repeated.
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