This is an analysis of the poem If my life of bitter torment and of tears that begins with:
‘Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento'
If my life of bitter torment and of tears...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXaabaXXXaabXa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010110100 01101001101 10010111110 111111001100 100110011001 1010111110 10101011011 1010011111 10110110 111111100 1101011100 0011101110 10100101010 01111111011 1111011 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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