This is an analysis of the poem La Porteria Der Convento (The Monastery's Porter) that begins with:
Dico: "Se pò pparlà cor padr'Ilario?"
Dice: "Per oggi no, perché confessa". -- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX X XXXX XXaX XaX 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: 10111110000 11010111000 110100001011100 110101001001000 101001001100 100011010000 110101010100 11110100000 10000101000100 1100110010 1111010000 11000100010 1101101010100 0100101110000 10 11110110101000 111001101001000 1010100011110 1010101010101000 1110101010100 110101110010 11100110110101 01111010000 100101110001 10111011111 111010000 111011 01101011010 111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words e, and are repeated.
The author used the same words dico, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- Analysis of La Penale (The Fine)
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