Bologna: A Poem About Gold by James Arlington Wright: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Bologna: A Poem About Gold that begins with:

Give me this time, my first and severe
Italian, a poem about gold, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcacXdXXe cfffghefXdibHj iXbdjgbXbDbD bHhehbXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,12,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101 010010011 0110011010 10010101111 10101001110 011110110 111110111001 0011111 1010110 001001 110010 10101011 1011001010001 110101 1000100011 0110010111 010 01101011001101 10010001010001 101010001111 0101001 1101001 11101 1110110 1 111100010 1 0111101 1 1101100101 1 11110110010 1 11011001 11 11011001 1111001011 11101 111101 10001011110110 110111101 1111011010 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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