This is an analysis of the poem La Bocca De-La-Verita' (The Mouth Of Truth) that begins with:
In d'una chiesa sopra a 'na piazzetta
Un po' ppiù ssù de Piazza Montanara ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXX XXa X XXXX bcXc XcdXbdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101001100 111100101000 111011001100 101010101000 11010110110 1100110110 10100101100 1111011011110 110111101110100 1111010101111 1101110110 111011001010 1100101101 10101111110 10 0010011 1010100011 0101100011 11111011010 011111 1111101111 0010111 10011101 000100111010 10111101110 01011110100 10010101 011111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; la is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Bocca De-La-Verita' (The Mouth Of Truth);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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