This is an analysis of the poem The Brother Of Mercy that begins with:
Piero Luca, known of all the town
As the gray porter by the Pitti wall... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacc dddeeccaaddXfgghhccaggadccdffcfcfXacccaacfXfffcchhddcciijjccjjaaggX cXaaXkllkXXjj ababkX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,67,13,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010101 1011010101 1011100101 1101010011 0111010101 0111011001 010111001010 11111111010 01010101010 1011110111 0111010101 1111110001 1001110101 0111010101 10110000101 10111010101 0101011100 1111010111 101010101 0110110100 0101110011 1010110001 1011010111 0111010001 0101110101 10010111001 0101010001 1011100100 1101110101 1101010101 1101010001 11111011111 0011110011 1111001100 0110110101 1111110100 1001010111 1011110111 1011110011 1111010111 0111001101 1111010101 01110010101 1111110101 1110111111 1011110101 0101100101 101101001 1111111100 0110110101 1111011011 0101011111 11100010101 0111111111 1111011101 0111111101 1011110101 1101001101 10110100101 1111010101 1111010111 1110001111 1111010101 1001100101 0111011101 10110010101 11100011111 1111010100 1011000101 0101010001 11110101010 010010101010 1101 100111 01110010111 1101111101 0111010011 11000110010 1111011111 011111010101 10011100111 10110100101 11001110101 11011011100 1111100111 1101001101 010010111 01010111 11010101 11011111 01010101 110111010 101010101 1111110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 660
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, to, no, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, , the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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