This is an analysis of the poem Joconde that begins with:

IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore,
Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaa ddffggdXee hhffdd bbiiaa ddjjdXcc ggkkddllkkkkkk bbmmbbbbgg iidd ffbbbbkkkk anbbbbaammccbbdd ddffddkk ddddkkii ffbb ddeeaahhccbbhhddbb ddccaa ddeebboocc kkkkddff kkll llhhdddXkkbbccj jppbb ffddffbbXXXnkkddddddccff ddmmmmffaakk mmXkffnaoocc aa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,6,6,8,14,10,4,10,16,8,8,4,18,6,10,8,4,15,5,24,12,12,14,14,4,16,6,10,6,4,6,6,10,16,6,12,12,10,16,8,2,8,12,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0100110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011111 0101110101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010111 1100011101 0101110111 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 0111011011 0110110101 1001110111 1101100111 1101011100 1111011111 1101010011 0101010101 0101111101 1111010101 0101010111 1101011101 0111110101 0101011001 1111011101 1111010101 1101000101 0111110101 1111010001 01010010101 0101000111 0101011101 0101110101 0101110111 01010101100 1111010101 1101010101 1110110101 0111010101 0100011101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011111 0100110111 1111111101 1101100011 0111010101 0101111101 1111100111 1111010111 1101011101 10001101101 1110111101 1110000101 1101010101 11100110001 0101111001 1101010101 0101010101 0101010011 1111010101 01110011101 1101111101 1111110111 1111010001 1011111111 1111010101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010101 11110111001 10010001101 1100010101 1101011101 10001010101 1101000101 01010111010 100110001001 0001010101 0101010101 1101010001 1111010101 0101011101 0111011001 0101010111 1101100111 1111110001 1101010101 1101010111 0111110101 0101001011 0100101101 0101010101 1111010110 1101110111 1100010101 1101111111 1101010101 0101110101 0101001001 0101010101 1101010001 1110110101 1101011101 0101010101 1101011101 0111010101 0101010011 1101111001 1100011111 1101000111 0100111111 1101010111 1101110111 1101010101 0101010101 1001010111 1110110101 0111110101 1111111101 1101110111 1101111001 1101011101 0101011111 0111011111 1100010101 1101110101 1111101101 1111111101 0100111101 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 0111010001 0101010001 1111010111 0100110101 1111110101 1010110101 1111011111 0111010101 1101110001 1100110111 1101010101 0101110101 01110010101 1111010101 1101010001 11111101011 1101100101 1101010111 11111010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101111101 1110011111 1111110101 1101010101 110101001 0110011001 01011100001 0101101101 01010111100 0101010111 1101010101 1101100111 1111111101 10111110011 0101110001 0101111101 0101010101 1110010001 01110101001 11011000101 10011011101 0111011101 1101010111 0101101011 0101110111 1111010101 0101011101 1111010011 1001110111 1101110101 1101111111 1110010101 01011000010 110011100101 1101111111 1111010111 11000010101 1101000111 1101011001 1011010001 1111110111 11010101001 1111011001 1111111101 10010111001 1001010101 1101000101 1111010101 0101010111 0101010011 1101110101 1111010101 10101101101 1101000101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010011 0101010101 1110010101 1101010110 01010100011 101011101 1101110101 11010011010 0101010011 10110001001 1101000101 1101011111 1111110001 1101110011 1101010011 1101000101 1101001011 010101011001 0101001101 1111011111 11011000101 1100101100 1011010101 1101010111 1111010101 0101110101 1111010001 1111100111 1101010111 0111010101 1001110101 1111010101 11011110111 0101010101 110110011 1100011011 0101000101 0101110001 1111011101 1111011101 0111011111 1011010111 1101011101 1100010101 1001010101 0101010001 0101111101 0101001101 1101101101 01011101010 11010010010 1101010101 11010010101 10110001001 0101010111 1101010111 11110101011 0101011111 0101000111 0101111101 1111010111 1101011101 1110111101 1100110111 1111010101 0101110011 1011010101 0111010101 0101111101 0101011001 0101110101 1101000101 1101010101 01011011111 1101001101 0111010001 1101110011 0101011001 1101110101 1001110101 1001010111 1100011101 1101010110 0101110011 1101010101 10010010101 1101010101 0111010101 1100011101 1101010001 1101010111 0101110001 0101110101 0101100101 1101111101 0101110101 1101110011 1101111101 1111011101 0101011101 1001010001 0111010010 1100010101 1110110001 0101010101 1110010111 1101010111 01100110101 1100010001 0110010101 0111110101 0101011101 1111010101 1111010001 1101110101 0101000101 10001010001 1101011101 1101011101 11010101010 0101010101 1111110101 0101011101 0101010101 1101100101 1111000101 0101010101 1100010101 1011111101 1111011101 1111110101 0111010111 1111011101 1111111111 1101011101 1101011101 0101011101 1100010101 0100110101 1101010101 1100010111 1101011101 0101111101 0111010111 0101110101 1101110111 1111111110 1001101101 1101011111 11111111001 01001011001 0111011100 1111010101 1101110111 0101010111 0101001010 1101010101 0101111111 1101010101 1101001111 1101011001 1111010101 0111111101 0111011101 1101111101 1111010001 1001111111 1101010101 1101010111 1111010101 11110101001 1101010101 1101111101 1111011101 11011101101 1101010111 1111111101 0111000101 1111010101 1101111111 01001010101 1100010101 1100011101 1101011101 1011011111 11110101010 10100101101 1001111111 1101000101 0101011101 0101100101 10110110111 0101010001 1111011011 1001011101 1101010101 0100011001 0011011111 11001110101 01010101010 10010011101 1101010101 1101110101 0100010101 1101000101 1101010111 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 11001110111 1101010001 1101110101 1101010111 1110010111 0101011101 0111111001 1101011001 0101010011 1101011101 1101110101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010001 1110110011 1101010101 0111010111 1111010011 1111010011 0101011001 1101010111 11001100101 0010010001 0101110001 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 0110110111 1001010001 1101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 456
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, he, his, of, our, nor, and, no, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, to, no are repeated.

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

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

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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