This is an analysis of the poem Tema Con Variazioni that begins with:

Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous to her sister-art Music? The Diluter... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XX abab caca aXaX cdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110011010010011100101111101000101100100111011011111010100110111001111100011001000101101000010011110010100110101001101010110110001010110111100100001001010100110010100100010000101 11011010010110100100 10001100110010101010000110101000101011001110110111001101010010111100111101011101011110 11010101 11011111 11010111 11110101 01100111 11110101 11011111 11110101 11110111 111101010 11111111 11011101 11101101 01011101 11110111 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 82 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, that, has, more, so, then, in are repeated.

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  • summary of Tema Con Variazioni;
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  • history of its creation;
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