This is an analysis of the poem La Quercia Caduta that begins with:
Dov’era l’ombra, or sé la quercia spande
morta, né più coi turbini tenzona....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX aaX aXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111101 10111100100 1111101011 1011110010 1100100010 11111010110 1001010010010 100111101 100110101000 1101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length 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; ognuno is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ognuno is repeated.
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- summary of La Quercia Caduta;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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