This is an analysis of the poem Monte Cassino. Terra Di Lavoro. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) that begins with:

Beautiful valley! through whose verdant meads
Unheard the Garigliano glides along;--... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xefe gXgX ecec fgfg ghgh gcgc igiX aeae jgjg klkl dmdm haha gcgc ncnX dhdh egeg baba cocoXilil
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001011101 0101000101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 110011111 01111100101 0110010101 1001011100 1101000001 01001011101 0101010111 1010010101 1110011101 1101011101 1101000101 1010001101 1100111101 11010011101 01011010001 1001001001 01101010111 1101011101 01001011001 1110010101 1101010101 1010010101 1100010101 1101011111 0101110001 0101011101 01010011100 1101001111 0110010101 0111010101 1001011110 0111010101 0101010101 1001000111 1011011111 0100011101 1101011101 1001010001 1000010111 1111110001 1011000101 0101000111 10110100001 1101010101 0111110111 01010100101 1101000111 1110000101 1001010101 00101010111 1101010101 1001010001 0101010101 00010100111 0100111101 01111101110 1101010001 100100100110 1101111100 1101001101 1111110111 1101110101 1001010011 0011011001 1111011111 0101010001 0011111101 1101010100 01110011001 1101010101 1100010101 0100001101 00110100011 1101010111 1011011011 1101000101 1101010001 1001011101 1111100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, and, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same words there, well, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Monte Cassino. Terra Di Lavoro. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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