This is an analysis of the poem Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio that begins with:

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Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbadd XXbebXbff XghghghXi XjkjXjXll amkmkmkhX aananannn Xjcnancjj XoioioioX XnXnXnfll lijijijbb amBmBmbpp Xanananlh XololXlhh XjXXhjhnn XqmqmXmbb XXhlhlhnn XnlnhXhac Xajajajii XXkpkpkXf Xbjbjbjrr XhnXnhnhh Xakakakff XjXjnjnhh XjkjXjkll Xrjrjrjjj Xksks
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101110101 0100110011 1110011101 0111011100 1111111111 011000101 1111010111 1011011101 1 01001111100 010011011001 1110111101 1011110101 10010011100 0011011101 0111110001 11011100001 1 1111011101 01011100001 1001010111 0101010101 1101010111 0101110011 1011010110 0101010101 1 0111010011 1111010101 1100110101 1100111101 1111010101 10001111110 1110110101 1001110111 1 0111000011 1101010101 1110110111 11001010101 1111111111 1110111111 1111110101 11011101010 1 1111110111 011100101 1001110001 11001110101 10011100101 1001010101 1110010001 0111001111 1 1111110110 0101011100 0100111101 01001010101 1101010111 1111110100 1001110101 1001111101 1 1101011101 1111110011 1111010101 1011110111 1100011111 11101010111 1111011101 1001111101 1 1111010101 1011010101 1111010101 10110101010 11010010111 110000101 1110011100 11010100101 1 1011010101 1101010101 1001011111 0101001101 1001010101 10010111001 1011110101 11011111001 1 1111010101 1100010101 1111110101 1100010101 10010010111 01010101001 1101001101 1101110011 1 0101010100 1101110101 1101110001 1101010111 1101010111 1100110101 0101011101 1001010111 1 1101000101 0101111100 1101000101 1100010101 11010011001 1101010101 1010101000110 11010101010 1 0011001101 010010100 11010010101 011110100 11011100101 0101010101 10110100101 01011010001 1 1000110101 1111000101 1001111001 0110110101 1101100101 0101010111 1100111101 1111110111 1 1011011101 101111011 1011011101 0011011101 1011011101 0101010100 1011011101 1001010011 1 10110001101 0101110100 11110011010 10110000101 01011100100 11001110111 11110100101 1101010110 1 1101110111 1101000101 1111100101 0100011101 0011010011 1111011111 11101100101 1101110101 1 110011100 0111110101 1011010111 10110100001 1011011101 1111111101 11001001110 0101010101 1 1101011101 1111001001 1011011101 0111010111 1001010111 0101111101 0111010101 1100100111 1 1101011101 1101011101 11111111000 0101010111 1101001101 1011010111 1111010101 0111010101 1 11001010011 1101111101 0111010101 0101010101 1101110101 1100011001 110101101 0101011101 1 11010101110 00011100100 00101001111 1101011011 1110010010 10011111001 1101010111 1011110001 1 11110101011 1111010101 1111110111 110100101000 0101001111 1011001101 1101010100 0111110101 1 1110011101 1110111101 0111010101 1011000111 1111100101 1101110001 1101110101 1110110101 1 1100111101 11110110010 1101111111 11010101010 1011110111 100100111111 1111011111 1111110100 1 1011011101 1111001101 10110011111 0101010101 1101010111 0101000101 01010111010 00010101010 1 1101011100 1011000111 1101110101 0101000111 1011011011 11110010101 1101001001 11010100100 1 1111010101 01011011101 0101110011 01010100101 11111100101 1111011001 01111111010 10110001010 1 1101110100 1011010111 1101011100 11010010001 0100011101 1001010101 1000110101 110111001110 1 1100110111 01001000101 11010101011 0101010001 1111000101 0101000101 1101010001 1101010101 1 0011010111 0101010101 101101000100 0111110100 0101010101 0111011101 0011011101 1100010101 1 0101011101 1101001111 1000011101 1111111101 1101010011 1101010101 11001011101 0111000101 1 1111010100 1101110111 0110110111 1101100101 1111010101 10110000101 0101110101 10010101111 1 0101000101 010111011 0101110101 1101011111 1000011111 0101110011 0011110101 1101010101 1 1101101111 1111000101 0111110101 1101010101 10110011001 100101110 1101010101 1111100101 1 0111011101 0111110101 0011110011 0100100101 00110101001 0111000111 00101010101 1011010111 1 1001010011 111010111 1011110111 1011011101 1111010111 10001010011 1111011101 1011010101 1 1101110101 10010101010 1011010101 11010111110 1101111101 1100101010010 1011111101 1111000100 1 1111111110 1111010111 1101010101 11001111111 1101000101 10111100111 1101011111 1101111101 1 0101100111 0101000111 1101011101 10110101101 11110001001 1101011111 0111000111 1001110101 1 1111111011 1101110100 1111010101 10011011101 1101010101 1101111100 1101101111 1111110001 1 1011011101 1111000101 1111011101 1100110101 10110101000 1101000111 011100111 1100110101 1 1111010101 111100111 1101010011 10011100101 1011101101 1111100101 1111010101 0111010101 1 11110000111 1101010101 1101011101 011100111001 10011110111 1100110101 1001010111 1101010101 1 1100011111 1101010101 1011110111 1111000101 01010011101 1001010001 1001110101 0111001101 1 111101110 0111010100 1100011111 1100010101 1101001001 1101011101 1111011101 1011110101 1 1111010100 0101110001 1101010100 1111000111 1101100101 110110010011 1111010001 1101001111 1 11001010101 1101010111 1101000101 0101000101 1101011101 1101011101 0111100101 1101001101 1 010110101 1101110101 1111000101 0111010111 1101110101 0101011101 1101010111 1111011101 1 0101001101 1101111101 1101100101 1101111001 101101011 0111010101 1101111111 1011111111 1 1001011001 0101010100 10110101001 1011011000 1101110101 0101011101 11000111001 1101011101 1 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010111 1011111101 1100110101 1100011001 1 1111010011 1111110001 1101110101 0101010101 1001110101 00110011101 1101010100 111001101 1 1101010101 1101011000 110100111 011010111 1001111111 1111110100 1101101101 1001011101 1 1101110001 001101100 111010101 1101000100 1100010111 1101010100 0101110101 11110010101 1 1101010101 11110101010 0110110001 010100010010 001111001001 0101010111 0111010101 1111000101 1 1101010101 1111010101 1101011101 1011010111 1111010111 01010111001 0001111101 11001000101 1 1111011111 0101111101 1100110101 1101110101 1111110111 1111010101 1101011101 0101010101 1 1101010101 1001000101 0111011101 1111010101 0100110111 1111000101 1001010111 0101110100 111 1101011101 1101011000 1101011101 011010111 1001111101 1101110101 0101111001 11110010101 1 1011111101 10101101000 10010010001 0011110111 1001000100 0111010111 1100110111 1111010101 1 1111111101 0101010001 1111010101 0100011101 1011000101 0101110101 1001011100 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 63
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 567
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; her, his, i, not, too, and, for, them, why, they, proud, of, thy, thee, their, we, he, in, how, might, it, she, forgot, from, o, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, 'to, fell, too, why, and, to, there, of, 'and, the, 'i, how, o are repeated.

    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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