This is an analysis of the poem A Letter From Italy that begins with:

Salve magna parens frugum Saturnia tellus,
Magna virûm! tibi res antiquæ laudis et artis... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX bbcc ccXd cceeffcc ccaabbee ggcccc ffgghh bbaaccddeeeeaabXiihhbbaaddaaeeccjjXgkkddcceellcciieeiiee aakkllXkeecc eecckkcciicXXk kkiikkgg cckkiihhccXihch kkjjkkbXccaa eeXkee eeiiXffddcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,8,6,6,56,12,14,8,15,12,6,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110101010010 10111110010110 100101010010 111 1111010101 1010010101 1100010101 1101010111 1001011101 1101000101 1011010101 01001010101 110001111001 1101110101 0101010101 1111011101 1101110111 1101010101 0101110101 11010100101 1111010111 11001110101 01011100001 1101100001 0101010101 1011000101 1101000101 10011010101 100010100101 10001100111 01011101001 01001011101 1101001101 0101110111 0101010101 1111010001 11010101001 1111011101 1101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101010101 0101111001 1111000101 0101010101 1101010101 11010101001 10100110001 11000010101 1111110101 0101010111 11001010111 1101010101 11011100101 01111111010 10001001111 1101001101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1011110101 1101110101 0101110101 1011010101 1101110101 111101101 1101010101 1101010001 1101010111 10111100101 1011010101 0101001101 1011010101 1101010110 0100010101 110000101 1111010101 1101011001 1110010001 1101010101 1101010101 1011010101 11010010011 1101010101 110111110101 1011110101 1011010101 1011010111 1100010101 0101000101 1011010101 1101110001 1100010101 1011011101 1101111101 1111010101 11101010011 1001010111 0101010011 1101000101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010001 11011100101 01001110001 1111010101 11001000111 1111010101 1101000101 1101010001 0101010101 0101111101 0101010101 1101000101 1100110101 0101001001 0101010101 1011010111 10010101100 10001010101 1001010111 11001101001 0101110001 0101001101 1101011101 1001100111 1100110011 1101010101 110001110001 1101100101 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 01011110001 0101010101 1011010101 1101010111 0101010101 110100011010 11011010101 1100111001 11010110110 1 10010011101 1011010101 0101001101 1111010101 11010110101 1101010101 01010100101 1100010101 0111111101 1011000101 1101011101 1101011101 10101100101 0101100101 1101011100 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 10001111111 01011100111 11001100101 1101000101 1101010111 1101011001 1101010101 0101110101 0111010101 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 497
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 173
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, and, in, her, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, how are repeated.

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

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