Stanzas To The Po by George Gordon Byron: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas To The Po that begins with:

River, that rollest by the ancient walls,
Where dwells the Lady of my love, when she... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fbfb ghgh idXd bjbf klkl jmjm didi cccc dbdbXecec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101 1101001111 1111110101 0111010001 1011110110 0100111111 0101110101 1111111111 1111010011 1111010111 1111001111 1111101101 11111101110 1100111111 11010001010 1101111101 1111011101 1011010111 1101010001 1101011111 0101010101 0101110101 0101111111 0111011101 1011111111 1011101101 1101110111 01001000110 01100100011 1101011111 1101010001 1101011001 0111110111 0101111111 1111110111 1111110111 1111010101 1011011101 10010001001 11001010011 0101010001 1101010101 01010010101 1011110101 11010100001 1111111110 0101010001 0101011101 1101011101 1111111111 0101010111 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; thy, and, my, her, in, by, of, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, her are repeated.

    The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.

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