This is an analysis of the poem Ah me, the beautiful face, ah me, the gentle look, that begins with:
‘Oimè il bel viso, oimè il soave sguardo,'
Ah me, the beautiful face, ah me, the gentle look,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXXXXbXccXaXcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011110 1101001110101 11010101000 1101111001 1101101100101 11101101010 010100111110 10110001 01011101011011 0010111111111 111110111001 1101011101 1110110010 1101010001001 10101101101 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, ah, and, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ah, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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