This is an analysis of the poem Piazzale Michelangelo that begins with:

Florens, dine Roser er ikke til for mig,
De øger kun den Feber, som brænder mig i Blodet;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXaXa XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001111 011110111110 101011110110 1111111111 011101111 1101011111 1001111111 101011111011 11111011111 1011111101 11011011101 111110111111 101011110111 1101011111 1010111111 1010101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mig, for, jeg, han, en, d are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).

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  • summary of Piazzale Michelangelo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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