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

Her younger sister, that Speranza hight.
England puts on her purple, and pale, pale... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a babacc dedeee XfgXhh iaiajj hhXidd khkhXd aiajij kekehh dkdkll bbbbjj XldXll ajajdd Xemell hghgll hdhhdh jjjjdd didibb babadd alalee bhbhgg aXaiXX hjhjii fefeaa lnlnll Xhdhii klkloo jXjaeX jbjbdd dbdbhh jcjcll pdpdll Xldlll bcbcbb jdjdXX hgigqq agXgaX d
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 1011010111 0111011111 01010111011 1101110111 1001011111 0111010111 0101010101 0101110111 1001011101 1101111101 1001111011 01001111111 1011110100 1011010110 01110001001 11110101011 1101010101 1101011111 1011010111 1011010101 11010111111 10100111111 1111111101 101010101 1101010111 0111010111 11110001000 1100111101 10011101001 101100111011 01000011101 10010111001 1111011111 0100110111 100101011100 1101110011 1001111101 1111110111 1101111011 1111111111 1011000101 0100100011 1001011101 0101010101 1001111101 0111001111 11010010101 1111001101 1101110001 0101110111 1101111101 10101111101 1101111001 1101010111 1110010100 11110111101 1011011100 01011100100 1011110101 1101111111 11110111010 11010010101 11100101 0111010101 011111101 01111111001 1101111111 11011100101 1011111001 1011110101 10010101111 11011101001 1111101101 0100010001 11110011011 101111001001 1101011111 1101111101 11011101001 1100010111 0101011101 11010101101 10010011101 0011000101 1101111101 1101111101 1101010111 10101011101 10010011101 1111010111 1111010011 1101001111 10101010101 0101011111 11011011111 1011010111 1111110101 11011110101 0111001111 0101100101 1001111111 1111110111 1100111101 01000100101 1111111111 1101011101 11110011101 1111111111 1101111111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101111011 0101110101 1101111111 11111101001 1101011101 1111010101 0101010001 1110010011 11011111101 00111101010 1101110110 1111000101 1111111101 1101011101 1001011111 11100011111 0011010101 11110111001 1011011101 1111110101 1110111001010 11011011111 11010110010 01100101101 1001011101 1101110111 0101010111 011101111 1110010101 10110010111 1011010101 1101110101 11010101100 1101110101 1001101101 0111111100 1101010100 1011011111 1110010101 10010101010 0100110101 011101001010 01111110101 1100011101 11011101001 11010100100 1101110101 1111110110 01001111111 11010011100 1001010101 1111011110 0101010101 0111010101 01001100101 1101000101 11010010101 1101010111 10110101001 01001110101 1100011100 1101010111 1001011101 1111010111 1001110111 1101111101 0101110101 1000101101001 1001010101 0101011111 110110100101 1101010101 01001111111 1101100100 0101011000 10010011001 10010100111 1110110111 1111110101 01010111001 100100100101 0101001101 1001011100 0111011111 1001110101 1000111001 0101011101 1100111111 1101011011 01110101101 01110111100 11010101110 110010011011 0100110101 1111111111 1110110101 1101110101 1101010101 1111011011 1011010101 0101110101 01001011101 0101111101 1110111011 1011010101 0001111101 0110011111 101010101101 1111011101 1101110111 11111101001 100101010 0101010101 11001010101 1101011111 0111011111 1101110111 1011011111 0011011111 0101010100 1111011001 11001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 235
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, their, to, nor, of, why, lost, be, would, before, life, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words but, who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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