This is an analysis of the poem Italy that begins with:
ACROSS the sea I heard the groans
Of nations in the intervals... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXabcbbcddddddeddefgffghahha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01000100 01111111 110101110 11110100 11010101 11010101 11111101 01010101 10000101 11111001 010100101 11011101 11010001 11010101 110110101 11010101 01011101 010001001 10011101 11110101 11010101 11010011 11010101 01000101 11011101 01110101 01010111 01110101 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1080
- Average number of words per stanza: 199
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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