This is an analysis of the poem Of Honourable Lineage that begins with:
Of honourable lineage in Contessa was born
Nick Chetta, a scion of the Albanian soil....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX aXbX bXb XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100100010011 1100100001001 1100100001001 1011101001001 011101010010 00100110011 01110001010 11010111101 101111011 001011001111 111010010001010 1010101001 1101011010 001010001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, with, he are repeated.
The author used the same word like at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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