This is an analysis of the poem Florante’s Lament that begins with:
Vengeful Heaven, where is your wrath?
now my land is overcome, prostrate,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc XdeX bfbd gcdg hdcb cbba ccXh Xgid fbee dXXe fhXc XXai fbfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10101011 111010110 100101001001 10010101 0110111001 010100101 0101010110 0010010101 110001111 0001010011010 1010100101 01100101 110101001 01110001 111100101 11010101 010010011 1110100101 0110010101 01101011110 111110 010111 010111 10100101 1100010110110 1101101101 11010110100 0010110101 1010110 1010011001 10111110110 01100101 11110010 110110001 11011100 101010100 1111101 10101011 011100100101 01100110 1110111 0110111101 100111010 01111111 1111010 111110100 00011011 000110 01111 11111101 010010010 011011110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, your, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, o are repeated.
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- summary of Florante’s Lament;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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