This is an analysis of the poem La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente that begins with:

MY limbs are wasted with a flame,
My feet are sore with travelling,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX deXe fgfg Xdfd Xded dhdhXeded
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001 11110100 11011101 11110101 11000111 11111100 11110111 11010101 10111101 01110101 10111100 11110001 01010101 11010101 11010101 01011111 01011101 10110011 110011100 11010101 01011100 10110001 01000101 01110101 101000101 11000101 01110101 10110001 11011100 11011111 11011100 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, or, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, green are repeated.

    The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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