This is an analysis of the poem Now that the sky and the earth and the wind are silent that begins with:
‘Or che 'l ciel et la terra e 'l vento tace'
Now that the sky and the earth and the wind are silent...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXaabcXcdXbdbdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110111010 1101101101110 101101011101 11010100001 10101011001 11111111011 011011101101 1011101110 110010001111 10111010 101110111 1101111101 11110111110 11111010101 111101010 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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