This is an analysis of the poem Grizzled and white the old man leaves that begins with:
‘Movesi il vecchierel canuto et bianch'
Grizzled and white the old man leaves...
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXXabcXXXcXaXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110010011 10110111 011111010101 110101001001 110110100 10110011 1011001 10011110011 1010110101 11011000010 01101001 1110101010 101101110 101110100010 101010101 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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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