This is an analysis of the poem Ravenna that begins with:
To my friend George Fleming author of 'The Nile Novel' and
'Mirage')... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX b ccddbbaXeeffgghhffiXhhjjkkiia accllkk X bbbbcchhaaa aaakkggii X llccgghhaaa aiiffllgg bmllccllggbblljj llccffbmhhl lnn X jjccllmmaallbmkkaaaallbXaal lkkii nnccbm lXbXll b jjkkkkbbmboollbXaannaai iggjjbX b aabmhhllbmaakkhh Xakkllff llbmccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,29,7,1,11,9,1,11,9,16,11,3,1,27,5,6,6,1,23,7,1,16,8,8,12,14,20,9,11,14,1,9,19,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111010011101 100 1 01011100101 11100100101 11110001001 011010101 01010111001 0101110101 1101010101 0111111000 01110101010 01011101010 1100010101 11010011001 1101011101 11010101001 11010010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011000111 0101010101 1111110101 110110101001 1111010101 101011111001 1101110101 1110011111 0111011101 1101100101 1101110101 0101010111 1111010101 1101010111 1111010101 1001010111 1101000101 1101010111 1101100111 1 1101110111 1001110101 1101110101 1011010111 1111110101 0111010101 1001010111 010001010111 1111010101 1101011101 1101010101 1011011111 1100010101 1001010001 11110100111 1101101111 1100110101 1101010101 0111010101 1011110101 1 1101010101 1101010111 0101000101 1001110101 1101110111 1111010101 1001111101 1101110101 11111101001 110010101 1011110101 1101101101 1101010101 1101010101 111000101 1101010100 1111010111 1101011101 1111010101 1111010111 1001110101 0101110100 1011010111 0101110101 0101110001 1101011101 01111111001 01110100111 0111010101 0101110111 0101010001 1001010101 0101010101 1011001101 10110010101 01010101001 0111011101 01010100101 1101011101 1101010011 1101000101 1011010111 1101110101 1101011100 1101011101 1111010101 1101010001 11001111101 1111011100 0101110101 1 1101001101 1101110011 0101110101 1101110101 1101110101 1011010001 1011011100 1110010100 1001010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101010101 1001110101 1111011100 1110010101 1111001101 11110110001 1101010101 11010011001 1101010111 01011101001 101011101 110101101 111101100 1111110101 1101010111 1100111101 1101110001 01001010111 11011101001 1101010011 1101010001 1101010001 1101110101 1011110101 1011010101 1100010111 1101111100 1011110111 1101010100 1111010111 0101110100 0101110111 1111101101 1 0111010101 0011000101 1011010101 1101010101 11010100111 1101010111 1101011001 11111100101 1101110100 0111110101 1101010101 0111010101 11010011101 0111011101 1111110101 1111110100 010111011 0101110001 01110101001 0111110001 1111000101 1101110101 1101000011 1101110101 1101010111 0101010101 111101010010 01011111010 11011110101 111101100 1 11010100101 0111000101 1100111111 1011010100 1011111101 0101010101 1001011101 1011011101 10011010101 1101010100 1101011101 11011100101 11011010101 0101010101 1011110111 1101010101 1111111000 0101000111 0101110111 1001010011 1101011101 00110000101 0101110101 1001010101 1101110101 1101010101 1100010101 0111011100 0101010011 0101001101 10010001001 1101010111 1101010111 1101001101 1111010111 11011100101 0101010001 0101010101 0101010101 11010010101 01001110001 0111110011 1001010100 0011100101 1101110111 0101010101 010011001 1111011101 1110111101 0111010001 1111010101 1101010101 1001110101 11110100111 100101001011 1011010101 0101110101 1111110001 1110110111 0111010100 1101011111 0111010111 0101010001 0111010101 0101010101 0101011101 0011010101 01010100101 0101010111 1111110111 011111001011 01011111001 1111100111 0111110101 1101001101 11010000101 11010111001 1011010101 1101010111 01010110100 1101110111 1101010101 1101111101 0101000101 1011110111 0111110101 1001110011 1111011101 0011010011 11010100001 1100011001 1001010001 10010001001 1101110111 1101010001 01010101100 1101011011 1001010101 1101011111 1101011101 1101001101 0101010101 1111010101 0011000101 1011011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110101 1111010011 01001001101 11010111101 1011010100 1 0101010101 1111010111 0011011101 0111011101 0111000101 10010100111 0101111111 1001010101 1011000101 1101010001 1101010100 11011100111 10001011101 11111010101 11010101001 1111011101 1011010100 1101010100 0101010101 1101010111 1101010111 1100110001 1101011111 1101011101 1101110101 1111011101 1111110101 1111110011 0101110101 0101001101 1101010101 0101111101 1101010001 0101110101 1101110111 1111010101 0101110101 1111100011 1101110101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 355
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, of, thy, here, o, as, with, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, o, as, to, of are repeated.
The author used the same words o, yet, adieu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ravenna;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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