This is an analysis of the poem Flower-De-Luce: Divina Commedia that begins with:
I.
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbXccbacaXac Xddddddddebfebf XgXeggeegddhddX XghhgghXggcigci adjjdXjjddkcdkc aldXaaddlijcXjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,15,15,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111110101 01001000111 11010101001 1011011101 10010100010 1101000101 0110000001 011100001 1111010101 1111010101 1001110101 0100011000 00010010101 1001010111 1 11010101110 0101101101 1111110001 101101110010 10110101010 11110101001 1011010101 11010101010 1011000111 1100010101 1100111101 11001100101 1001000111 001010001 1 1101111001 00110110100 1101111101 0101010101 0101000111 1101010101 1111100101 01001010101 0001001101 0100010100 1100000101 1101010101 0001011011 1101110101 1 0111110101 1101111101 1111010101 0111110101 1101011111 0101111101 1101101101 1100110101 1101010101 1001111101 1111010001 11100101 1001010111 1011010011 1 1111110101 0101110111 1101010101 1011010101 11010110100 0100110101 1100011101 1101110101 1101011011 1011010111 1100000101 10010010101 101011111001 0101010001 1 1101010100 1100011101 01010001000 1100011000 0100010101 0100010101 0111100101 1101010100 1101010101 1101010101 1001011101 10011011000 0111011101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, what, of, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, the, and, o are repeated.
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