This is an analysis of the poem Gioconda And Si-Ya-U that begins with:

to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U,
whose head was cut off in Shanghai...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab c XdXedfg hdigXffjekalmen XnmabecgggX X on c cgcbogoigdcpkddclg eonpXdedX gmXdkd agodo k qi g pdrkom rscXkg t kdkdgka Guoebbrqeaekk i kXhbrkqn i bA i qkkdgdqnmeendkeAemmecdpAp i gkbm kk pk D XXX ddd rXgXXX ddd baXSSSkkegkeqoguhod N i kgbgkdki
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,7,15,11,1,2,1,18,9,6,5,1,2,1,6,6,1,7,13,1,8,1,2,1,25,1,4,2,2,1,3,3,6,3,19,1,1,12,1,14,1,3,3,5,1,1,1,1,1,1,5,1,16,7,1,17,2,1,8,1,12,1,9,1,2,8,4,4,21,3,1,15,17,1,11,1,8,2,19,18,15,7,1,13,4,16,2,1,6,7,5,1,5,1,3,3,22,16,11,1,15,16,9,1,14,1,14,5,1,11,1,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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1100010 100110 11111111 101101 101001110010 1010011011 0110001011001 1 111 1 1111100111010 11110 11101 1011101010100 101 1 111 1 110 110001 010110110 1101 011110 1010 1110110 1 01110110 1001010 10 10 10 10 10 10 101101 1010010 01000101011 10 10 10 10 10 10 1011101001011 1110101 111100100 1010 1010 1010 01011100110 1101 010101000111 1 001001100101 101 1011 0011 1001 110 01 1 10010 0100100 110 01101 111 001 11 1011111 0010101011 11101110 110001 11011 0101101010 111111 11100 110 0110101010010 010011101 101001 11111110 10010 11110111 0010111011 11010010100101 11011 1100111 111 00101 00101 01010 1001010 10 10 10 10 10 10 01011011 11 1100100 1100110 1110 0100100 11 011011011 11 11101 11 11 110101 0010 11 001 11 1001 1001010 1001001010 100101000010 10110101101 101110110001101 11 1111011110 1010101 1110101111 0111111010 01110010 001000100 10010 1011 01 110010111010 111101 11011101 010010101 10110101 10111 010111 11 01 11101011 0010011010 10101 10101 0101 01101110111 100100110011 11010 10111 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110010010 110001 101011010 110111010100101 10010101 1010101 110110010001 11010101 0010001011010 101000101 11 011111001 1 10101 101010101001001 10110110101 111110 110110100 011101 10101 01010 1 101 1 101 01101011 11011110111 1111111101 1 1111011 11101 111100010 11010101 110001110001 1011010110 11111 1101110110 01 11011 11010 1 111 1010101011 0011000101 010110010001 010010101001010 1 111101 1 11 0010010101001 00011 010 111010 01101011001 110101 110111 11111101 110101011 101101011001 11110110110 10101110111000 101 101 0011101 110100 11010 111011 1111000 0100100 0111 0111 01110111 0101 10011010 0100100101 111101 1100010101 101 10101 11100101 110101 110101 111010101 101001 1010101011 110101110101 01101 010 11 110101 10110010 101001110 1101 0110101011 011 01001 0100010101 101 10101 11100101 110101 1101010 11 1001 010011 110011 11001 011101 110010 11 1011011 001101 0111 00111 101011 1001 11 1011011 110011 010111 010111 11010001101 11 001011 11 10110010 1001101 11011010 1111110111 001011 10011011 1011010 011010 0111011 11101 0010101110 10101001 001010 1 0101010001 11110001 1 11 1 11 1 11 1010110001 011100101 1001 1110 11010 1101100110 01110101 10111 11110100 0101011 11110 10111101 101101010 0101101100 011001001101111 0111 01 111 011010010100 100101010 11001 01010 011 10101 1101 11 110 1110101001 1111010011 01 1 101111 10101101 1111 1101 101011 1000101011 01110110 001011 001011 0010010 1001001 101000 0010010 01001011010 001010 01000110101 1100 01011001 100010 01101 11111001 1111011 010100001010 1101 1101 001010101 00101 1111 1111 11 100 1110010010 101001001001 110 001001101 10010100 110 10100111001 10100101 10110011010 1010 10111010101 011111 0011110 101 01101101 1101 01010101 001011 111010 11101001 10101011 01 11001110 1111101100 001 100 00101001 11001 10100010 110 0101 110 0010101001 1000 0101 1101101001 0010101000110 100 0101 100 110110 100 101 100 0101 10101 1001011000 11111 01 1100101011 10 10100 0101010 1101 101000010 1001110010011010 0100 110001 01 110 10111110 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  • Amount of stanzas: 104
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 806
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, of, hallo, paris, my, we're, to, and, you, work, one, her, him, painting, on, u, e, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, hallo, paris, news, because, midnight, , i, we're, those, bombay, one, her, he's, we, a are repeated.

    The author used the same words chinese, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines museum, florence, hallo, paris, china, cry, midnight, , blast, down, nights, port, rice, looking, up, masterpiece are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words sea, h, nights, shanghai, verdict at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases hallo, paris, midnight, climbing, , blast, shanghai, one connect the lines.

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