This is an analysis of the poem My sad verse, go to the harsh stone that begins with:
‘Ite, rime dolenti, al duro sasso'
My sad verse, go to the harsh stone...
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXaXbccdXXdbXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011110 11110011 1111010001 10011001010 10101000111 1001101010010 010101111 110010101 111101100 1010001011 101110101 11011100110 1010011110 101111101011 111110110010 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; her, and are repeated.
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