This is an analysis of the poem Theodore And Honoria. From Boccace that begins with:

Of all the cities in Romanian lands,
The chief and most renowned Ravenna stands;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddffddaaaddggg hijjccccc kkaaaaacc ffdddd ccfffccccii ggccbXllggcc dddddddddkkccfff ddddXddiimmdddd ddkkddddffdXddfX bbdddd ddddddii kknniidX ddddcciiXd eeccddiifffkkmm ddddihccffiijjddddccffX bbjjmmddffccbbiimmiX ddkkddbb Xooppdddiikkcc iiccdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,9,9,6,11,12,16,15,16,6,8,8,10,15,23,20,8,14,16,20,15,18,15,4,19,21,9,12,25,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01010001001 0111010101 0101010111 11010001001 1101010101 0101010101 0111111101 1101010001 0101010101 01010100101 1101010101 1101011101 1001110111 0111110101 0101011101 1101110101 1101011101 1111000101 1111000101 0101010101 1101011011 1111110111 0111010111 00101010001 1011110100 1101110101 1111000101 1111010101 01001011101 1101010101 1101011101 01110101001 1101111101 1101110101 1101011111 1111011101 111101010001 10110100011 10110101001 11001110111 1111010101 1011011001 0110111101 1101110101 10010100111 1101001101 0111011101 1101011101 1111010101 110000101011 0101100101 0101010111 11110101001 1111011111 0101010001 11011110101 0101010101 0101011101 1101110101 001100101001 0101010001 10101100001 0101110111 11010111001 0101111000 1111011111 0101010101 0111110001 1110111111 11111111001 1101010101 01011010101 010100101101 0101010111 11001010101 0111010101 1101010101 1001010111 01010100101 1101010101 0101110001 1111010101 1101010111 1001111101 0101010111 1101011011 1111110101 110000100111 1101010101 11011101001 1101011101 0101011100 0101010101 1011010101 1010011101 1101010101 0101110101 1101001111 1111011101 1001110101 1001011111 1101010101 0101010111 0111011101 0101110101 0101010101 1101110101 011000100101 10011101101 1101010101 0101010101 0101011101 1101110101 1111010110 1111110101 10110101111 11011111101 1111110010 1101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1001010111 1101010011 1101100101 1101110101 0101010101 1001010001 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1101101101 0101010101 01110011001 10010010101 1101010101 1101001101 1111011101 1101010101 1101110101 11001100101 1111100001 11011001001 11011100101 01010010101 1101010101 010011100101 11011110011 1111110111 1111011010 0101010101 1101110011 1101000111 11010110001 1111010101 1101011111 1111110101 1101011111 11010010111 1011010101 1111010001 1111010111 1111110101 1101110101 1101010111 1011111101 11011100101 11001001111 1101000111 1000111010101 1011110101 1101000100 1111111101 1001000101 1111110101 11001101001 10001111101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1001010101 1001011111 1101011101 1111010101 100101110101 1111110101 1101110101 1101010001 01010010101 1111011101 0111010111 1101111001 1101111000 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101110101 1100010111 110111001001 1000011101 1100110010 1101010101 1001111111 1101010111 1111111111 100101100101 1111010001 1001010101 1101111101 10000010101 01111000111 0111111101 0110010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101010111 010101010101 1110011101 1111110101 1111010011 1111010101 0101010101 1101010110 010110010101 0101110101 1110010001 1101010101 0111010001 010010110101 11001010101 1001010101 0101010101 11110010001 0101010111 11110100001 1101010001 1111010001 1110110111 1110111101 10001110100 11010100111 1000010100 1111011101 11111100101 1101010111 0101010101 1001110010 1101010101 0111010101 10010110001 0101010001 1111111000 0101101101 1010010101 0100010101 01001111101 01010100101 1100010101 0101010101 0111011111 1110011101 0101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1101110101 11010011111 1101111001101 1101010101 100101110101 1111010101 0110000101 010111011100 11010111001 0101010101 01110101001 010101010101 1101001010101 0100010101 1101010101 1101010101 11011101001 1101110111 1111111111 1111010101 1111110101 10001010100 100010111001 101111110111 1001010111 01001110001 1011010001 1100010101 1111011101 1111010101 011111100101 11001010001 10110101010 0111010101 11010100101 0101011101 100110101 0101011101 01011100101 0111010101 11010101001 01110010111 0101010101 01010010111 1101010101 1101001110111 1101010101 0101011111 11110011101 1101010001 110101001001 1100010101 0110000101 101010010001 1011001101 0101010101 1101110101 1011010101 11010100101 0111010101 0101110101 11010101001 0111010101 1101110101 1101010101 001010100101 110111010111 0101010101 1101010001 1101010101 11010111001 1101010101 1101110001 11011101001 0101010101 11010100111 1101011100101 0101110101 11001010101 0101010110101 11100010101 011001001100 1011010101 1111011001 0001010101 1001011101 1101010111 10111111101 0101110101 1001110101 11001011101 1101101001 1101110101 1101011100101 0111010101 10110101001 10011011101 0111010001 1011010101 1101011001 01110001001 1101010001 1111001010101 101100001001 0101110001 1101110101 1101011101 1101011101 0111011101 1001110101 1111110101001 0101010101 11001010101 1111011101 01010100101 1111110101 1001110001 01010101010 01010101010 1100010101 110101110101 110100110101 0101110101 1101011001 0111110101 1001110101 11010011111 1101110101 011111111 1101010101 1101010101 1110011100 1101110101 1101111101 0100010111 110101010101 11110100101 0100010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101011101 0101010001 010111110101 0101011101 1111111101 1101010001 1101111101 1101010001 1101010101 0100010111 1101010101 1101101101 0101010101 0100110001 0101011101 1000011001 1001010101 11010100001 11110101001 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 428
  • 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, of, she, nor, to, his, with, as, her, my, in, 'as, this, he, fear are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, 'as, and, the, of are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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