This is an analysis of the poem Greed and sleep and slothful beds that begins with:
‘La gola e 'l sonno et l'otïose piume'
Greed and sleep and slothful beds...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XabXcbXXXXbabXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011010 1111101 11010010001 11101110 110111101 110011010 101101111 1111001101 010101011010 10101101110 111011000 101011110 11110011101 11011111010 1010111010 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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