This is an analysis of the poem Er Logotenente (The Lieutenant) that begins with:
Come intese a ciarlà der cavalletto,
Presto io curze dar zor Logotenente: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XaX X XbaX bXXX XXb XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111000 11101111000 10100100011000 110111110100 11000100101110 101110101011 111001011100 11001110110000 1000001011010100 1101011010 11011101010 101001110101100 1101000111010 10101010010 10 111110100101001 11000010 1011011000110 1101010110110 11101011 110101001 1111011011101 1111101011000 1000011111010 1101110101 101101110 1111110110 1110111 101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases innocente, innocent connect the lines.
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- summary of Er Logotenente (The Lieutenant);
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