This is an analysis of the poem Buona Notte that begins with:

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'Buona notte, buona notte!'--Come mai... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaab XXXXX XXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1 101101011 111010101 11010111111 1111101111 1 1001010101 1110101000 110111010 10110101010 1 11101110 1100101100 1101101110 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; notte, buona are repeated.

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