This is an analysis of the poem When I turn again to gaze on the years that begins with:
‘Quand'io mi volgo indietro a miarar gli anni'
When I turn again to gaze on the years...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXbXabccbXXcdd 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: 10110100010110 1110101100 1110111010 1101011101 1101011011 111010010 11110110110 1010010101 111010011 11111111110 1110100011 111111111 1111101111 1111111001 0111011111 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- 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; my, in, i, and, myself, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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