This is an analysis of the poem Heartsease And Rue: Friendship that begins with:

I.AGASSIZ Come Dicesti _egli ebbe?_ non viv' egli ancora? Non fiere gli occhi suoi lo dolce lome?
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  • Rhyme scheme: X a bXcbdeedXfgeegghghcbcbiiiiigggg X cciddXiggjgaddkkdbb X ldglddgd X fcfceebbaaiiaagebebaammaeeakkmkknmoppopamma X a gegeghghggdgdeeknknkkXadkdkdkekiceikXkicicddddeeXggdffggeqeccqkdddook X lldddkXdkkmbbmee X a ciciccddicXioo ogg X bebeegemmgkkkk X iii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,31,1,19,1,8,1,43,1,1,69,1,16,1,1,14,3,1,14,1,22,1,20,1,41,1,13,1,1,54,1,44,1,1,31,1,20,1,1,52,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100110010111101001111011111 1 001011101001 11110001000 10011110001 0101010001 1101011101 010101 11010101 0111110101 1011111101 0101011101 0111 0111001111 11010010001 110001 11010101 1011000101 101111 1101000101 101100 11110101 01010101 1100111101 1101010101 01011110001 01110011001 0110001 11111001 0100011111 11110101 110111 0111010101 1 1111010101 11010011101 110111 1101010101 1101110101 1011011000 11010001 01010101101 01011101 1100 1100010101 010101 1101110111 11010001001 1101010101 11110010101 1101011111 11001001 1001110101 1 01001101 1101010001 1101110011 111101001 0100010101 1101110101 0101110111 1001010001 1 1111010101 110111 0111111111 11001011101 1110110101 1111110101 11110100101 10110011 1100011101 1101111101 1111010101 1111110111 1101001101 1111011001 1111110101 010101 1101010111 1101011101 1111000101 1101110101 0111011011 0101010111 0110110101 0101111101 0101010011 1001011101 1101110101 0111011101 1111011111 10010010101 1111110111 00110111001 0101011100 0111010101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 563
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, to, i, as, that, all, and, he, most, our, by, 'tis, in, his, for, their, him, we, be, god are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, to, nor, no, and, 'tis, 'good, our, he, they, 'twas are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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