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

Wild, pale, and wonder-stricken, even as one
Who staggers forth into the air and sun... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaacXddaa eeffggdXhhggddc iicXiiggjj ccaaccccklhhaaccgXhXeemmnnccddcchhooffeehhaalkooggddiihhppaalkaaqqll ddddcphhaaiXddddaaccaacXeeeaacXXhrrklhh ffddhhggbffddgggkkllccaaddiigglXddidsscciiddhXhXXai magag cdlclX hnhgghaXhddgagq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,15,10,68,39,51,5,6,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110101011 1101000111 00110001010 01010100110 1011000101 01001100101 0101010111 1101011000 0100010101 0101011101 1001100101 10001010001 1111100101 11010000111 1100110001 1100111111 10011101001 1111010101 1101000101 1001010100 0110011001 1110010111 1111010001 0100010101 1100010001 1101110111 011100 0110110101 1001010111 10001100110 10011110100 1111010011 1001010101 1101011101 10010100111 0101111101 1001100100 1111011111 1001011011 0101010101 1101010101 0100010101 1001010111 0111010111 1101001101 01000011100 01001010111 0100010101 1100110101 1100111111 1101010101 0110111111 1101010101 1101111111 0101010110 01111101001 1001011100 1101010011 0101101000 0101110111 1101110101 11001111101 0111110101 1111100111 0100010101 0111000111 01001010001 1010011001 11111101010 1010100101 0111011111 0101110101 0101000101 1101010011 0101000111 1111110111 0101001101 1011101101 1101100101 01001110101 0110011111 110010100011 0101001100 1101010111 11001010101 1101111101 1011010101 1001110001 1101010111 1001000101 1101010001 1111100101 1101011001 011001101010 11110101010 01001111101 0101010101 1101010111 11010010100 1001010101 1001010101 1101010101 11001011101 0101110111 1001000101 1101110101 1001010111 01001100001 0111010101 0100010111 1001010101 0101010101 1111010101 11010100101 1101010101 1001010001 0101000101 1101110111 0111110001 11010101011 0111110101 1101011101 1011011111 11000001010 01010001010 10110011010 01010101010 010010110010 11111011000 1001010101 10101011001 1001001100 1111100111 0111111101 0101010101 01010111010 1100011100 1101111101 1101010111 0100010111 1011010100 1101010011 0101010101 0101110101 1101010001 0101101111 0101111111 1101111101 1101010111 0001110101 0101011101 1101011101 0010010100 0100010101 1101010001 1101110001 1011110011 0111110111 1011101101 111110001001 0101100100 11010010100 0101111111 1101110111 0111010101 10001010011 1111111101 0101110101 0111010011 1111100101 1100010101 0101010101 1110110001 1111010101 1101000111 0101010100 0101011101 1001010111 1101010101 1111 1100010101 1101110101 1101011100 1001100101 1100010111 0101011101 01001110101 0101010101 1111010101 01010101110 0101110101 11011100110 0111000110 0101110001 11010101 01 11011 0010100101 100111 00101100101 101011010 10100101 001101101 011101010 1010101 010 101101 10101 1100111 11001 1100101111 01101 001 1011101111 01001 01111 10100100101 10101101 11000101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
  • Average number of words per stanza: 150
  • Amount of lines: 221
  • 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, of, her, in, with, or, that, not, to, one are repeated.

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

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