This is an analysis of the poem Divina Commedia that begins with:
I.Written March 29, 1864.1.
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa b b a X b b a c b c X c Xd d d d d d d d e a f e a fXg X e g g e e g d d h d d XXg h h g g h X g g b i g b iXd j j d X j j d d k b d k bXl d X c c d d l i j b X j Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111 1111110101 01001000111 11010101001 1011011101 10010100010 1101000101 0110000001 011100001 1111010101 1111010101 1001110101 0100011000 00010010101 10010101110 11010101110 0101101101 1111110001 101101110010 10110101010 11110101001 1011010101 11010101010 1011000111 1100010101 1100111101 11001100101 1001000111 0100010001 10001011 1101111001 00110110100 1101111101 0101010101 0101000111 1101010101 1111100101 01001010101 0001001101 0100010100 1100000101 1101010101 00010110011 1101011010010 100111 0111110101 1101111101 1111010101 0111110101 1101011111 0101111101 1101101101 1100110101 1101010101 1001111101 1111010001 111000101 1001010111 1011010011 10101011 1111110101 0101110111 1101010101 1011010101 11010110100 0100110101 1100011101 1101110101 1101011011 1011010111 1100000101 10010010101 101011111001 0101010001 100111 1101010100 1100011101 01010001000 1100011000 0100010101 0100010101 0111100101 1101010100 1101010101 1101010101 1001011101 10011011000 0111011101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 167
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, what, of are repeated.
The author used the same words what, and, as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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