This is an analysis of the poem The Secret Of Light that begins with:
I am sitting contented and alone in a little park near the Palazzo Scaligere in Verona, glimpsing the mists of early autumn as they shift and fade...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X a X b b X a X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010101001011001010000101001010101111101011101001010101010 01010100010110010100010100110101001010111 0100101101101010110010100101101010010010011001001010111101011000101011001010101010100110110101111011111010111001 11110001001010010100111101110101011010101111111010101101010011111110110101111011111000101111011110101010110001101111001110101001101010101111110110101110010111010001011111101101101 0101000011010101111011100101101001001011011010110110110011010011000100010001010011110100011111011101111010101110110010101110100110101001010101011010110101101010110001 11110010101011011100101001100111100101001011111110101010010110101011011101 001101011110101111101001010 10111111010 010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 302 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 55
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, and, her, secret, light, in, my, of, that, black, from, hair, as, face, me, they, what, hands, know, adige, river, life, this are repeated.
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