This is an analysis of the poem Vita Nova that begins with:

You saved me, you should remember me.
The spring of the year; young men buying tickets for the ferryboats. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ab X cde bbfg dXb c fa cehXe hc geX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,3,4,3,1,2,5,2,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110101 00100111101010101 1001010101010 111111011110000110 10101110111 101111001010100 1011 01010100101 101011000101 1101101110100010 0101110101 10 11101 0111010101 110110 100010110 101010101 11110101 0101010 100110100 01011111010111 1011100100 101010011011 100010101 100110010101 1101010100011 001010011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, i are repeated.

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  • summary of Vita Nova;
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