This is an analysis of the poem When the heavenly body that tells the hours that begins with:
‘Quando 'l pianeta che distingue l'ore'
When the heavenly body that tells the hours...
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- Rhyme scheme: X abaXbaccXadadd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011010 101001011010 101001010010 100010101 11010110 11100111011 11101010 101101001010 1000111010 11111110 11100101110 10010010111 011011011 11011001101 10110100111 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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