This is an analysis of the poem Flower-De-Luce: Giotto's Tower that begins with:
How many lives, made beautiful and sweet
By self-devotion and by self-restraint, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaaaabcbbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110011 1101011101 1100010101 1011000100 10010001001 1001010101 0101010001 1101010001 00110111010 01001010001 01000110010 010011010010 1001010101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
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