This is an analysis of the poem The Lambs On The Boulder that begins with:
I hear that the Commune di Padova has an exhibition of master-
pieces from Giotto to Mantegna. Giotto is the master of angels, and ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdecfbaghdbgiejcbidbkjblXmXnbXioamXcbXXoXbomcbnlbbbhgcgXfhbkofcmgoeobboemgdob
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 79,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110101100111010010 1001001001000100101 10000100011100110 101101101110011 1001101001001010 10101101111100101 1011101010101110 1100101001010111110 10010010101101000010 100101101010101100 01010001010100101000011 0100111010010001 110101001010000010001 11001001011110001011 01010011001 11010010101010110 0100101110010101 110111001100011 0101010011110111 1101010110 1010101101111 11010110111101101 0101110111100001 010101011001 01011101111011 110000101010101100 11110110101010111 111110010111001011 11101011001011 0111 1011010001111101 00111011010010 010 111011010010100011 0010001011010110110 1010100111011101 0110010011000110 1101001101011011 01001010100101 1101110110011110 111111010111110 1101110101110111 1011111010111110 1100110011001010101 1001001110110000 10100111100100011 010000010010001011 11100100101110010 10101 11011100110001100 0111110111 1111011111011 101101 1100111010010101 1010100101110110000 0110101010111100101 10110101110001010 111010101001111001 110101111000101000 110010010010101001 11101101011010001 10110100100100101 101101101010101 10101101100110 11 110101010101010 11010101001 010001101010011000 100001001011011011010 01001010101100010 01 1100110100101010110 0111110010011100 11101010111111010 11111 1111010011001100 0101110101011111 0010101111011011 11001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4774
- Average number of words per stanza: 890
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, master, and, him, or, faces, i, to, his, he, long, at, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lived is repeated).
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