This is an analysis of the poem Cadenabbia. Lake Of Como. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) that begins with:
No sound of wheels or hoof-beat breaks
The silence of the summer day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXec ffff gXga dhdh edXd acac ieie bjbjXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 01000101 110100011 110101001 11010101 11010001 01110101 010000111 11010101 100101100 11011111 11010111 11000101 11010111 11010111 10010111 01000111 01010100 11010101 10010101 101111011 01010111 11011101 111100101 01110001 01010111 011101110 10010001 11010101 01110111 110010101 10000101 11110001 00110001 01010101 10110101 11011101 10011111 00010101 11010001 10010111 01110001 11000101 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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