This is an analysis of the poem Opportunity.From The Italian Of Machiavelli that begins with:

Who art thou, glorious Form, flashing by me,
So beautiful, so Godlike—wilt thou fly me?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaabbaabbeebbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011011 11001101111 1111110111010 1101010111110 11010100111110 101011111110 01110101010 11110101010 11011110011 11011111011 11110111010 1111110101010 1100110101111 01111101011 1100111101010 101011111110 010101111010 11010101010 11110101010 10110111010 1111011111110 11010111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1088
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, me, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word therefore is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, them are repeated).

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