This is an analysis of the poem O little room that was once a refuge that begins with:

‘O cameretta che già fosti un porto'
O little room that was once a refuge...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdeXcbeXdXabXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110001110110 1101111010 011010101 11010100101 1110101101 1101111110 0110110111 1111011001 110100101 1111010011 1110111011 11010111100 111100111001 11101101010 1111010110101 0101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • 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; from 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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  • history of its creation;
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