This is an analysis of the poem The time to labour, for every animal that begins with:
‘A qualunque animale alberga in terra,' (Sestina)
The time to labour, for every animal...
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- Rhyme scheme: X abaccddXefcbXdcedcXbfdecbcfeddXcdfbeecdfXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,43,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010100100010100 010111100100 10101010011 01110101010 11110110001 11111110001 01110101 1111101001 01101010 01100101 100100010011 1111010001 1110101001 10101110100 111110101 1110001101 1101010101 111011101 1110111011001 11111101011 101101111 1111110111 11111011111 11111010001 110101001 1111000111 011010111 1101001011 11101011 01011001011 0111010001 1100010101 11111101 1111111011 1111010111 1000111101 10100101111 1100010111 1110010101 0101011101 101001101101 000101011101 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 585
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 43
- 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; to, some, i, that, or, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines earth is repeated).
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