This is an analysis of the poem The heavens have revolved for seventeen years that begins with:
‘Dicesette anni à già rivolto il cielo'
The heavens have revolved for seventeen years...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXXaXXXXabXXb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101100110 01010111010 11111111010 1111010111 110100101 0100111110 01110110101 010101110100 10011101101 011110110 110101010 1100010111100 001110110111 0111010101 11111101010 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; i is repeated.
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