This is an analysis of the poem Fiordispina that begins with:

The season was the childhood of sweet June,
Whose sunny hours from morning until noon... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdXefX ffdcffgXddXehXiiaadd effj cdkkXggllddffem eXXg haaaa mXddlldcXbaabbjfbblXhhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,20,4,15,4,5,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101011011 11010010011 1101010101 1001010111 1010010100 1000010101 100011100 1101000111 00010001010 100010101100 1011011101 0110010101 10110111110 11100010100 11110101110 01111011110 1101001101 1011010011 1001011101 1111111111 100010100 0111011111 0100010101 0101000100 1101000101 11110101001 11110110010 00010101010 1101110011 1111011101 111010111 111100010 1000111010 1110010 0101010100 1101010001 1110010001 11111011 11011101111010 0101011110 10011011 110101111 010001101 01010101011 1111011101 101011101 1111010101 01000100001 1001111 100010111 0101001101 1001010100 110101 1111111 1101011111 1101110101 11011111010 11011101010 1111001101 11001101001 1101 100010101 1110000101 1001101101 01111001111 0110111100 1100111101 111110001 1001010101 1101010101 0011111101 1111110101 1001010111 1101010 1111111101 11010011101 1110010101 11010101000 01011100111 1011001001 01001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 87
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; same, and, my, to are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Fiordispina;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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