This is an analysis of the poem O beautiful hand that clutches my heart that begins with:
‘O bella man, che mi destringi 'l core'
O beautiful hand that clutches my heart...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abaXXXbaXcXXcX 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: 110111100110 1100111011 101101101 1111011010 1111101010 011010110 110011100110 1110101101 01110111010 1101101 1110100111 110111111 010111100101 101000101 1001111111110 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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