This is an analysis of the poem My weary eyes, there, while I turn you that begins with:
‘Occhi mei lassi, mentre ch'io vi giro'
My weary eyes, there, while I turn you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaXXXXbaXXXXab X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011110 110111111 01010100111 111110 1010110011111 10111011 0101110 001110110 111110101 11101111 11010010110 110101001 01100101 10011 110011100 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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