This is an analysis of the poem Julian And Maddalo (Excerpt) that begins with:

I rode one evening with Count Maddalo
Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbccbbdddeeffgghhiihhjjfXffcckkaXgXeellmgiillbbbbffaagmcceengbbhhbbgXaaffohcceekkbXeXppkkeeXalXeellqqqbbXollggaXllkkgmeellaajXllhhlleegmng kkbbqXkkggffaXaffffggccppXghhlllXppXhXXbbbbaaggmbbXbffaaggaaXcllbbddgmXXpggc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 140,76,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111001100 0101011101 01000110011 0101010101 10010101001 1101010111 0011010011 1011010111 0101110101 0111111111 10110001011 0101010101 1111011111 0111011111 1101010111 0100010111 0101111100 1110110101 1101010111 1100010111 0111111011 0101010101 00110011001 10111001001 1001110111 1010010111 001110100 1111111011 1001010101 1101011111 101100001010 1101110111 1011110101 0110101111 0111010110 11111100110 1101001100 1101010101 0101010101 1101111101 0101010101 0101101100 0111101110 1111010101 11111100101 1100111101 0011010101 1001010011 1101010101 0111110101 1110010101 1101010101 1101110101 10001000101 1100011101 01001010111 1101011100 11011101010 0101010011 0111010011 1111100011 0101100010 1111110101 1111010011 1001010101 1101010101 1001000101 1101010101 11110010101 0101111101 1101011000 1101010111 1011000101 10110110001 1011110001 0101010110 110100111 1101010101 010001010001 1110011110 01001101001 11010010101 01010010111 01010100111 1101010100100 11010100111 010100110010 1101011001 1111010111 1011010101 0101010001 11000101010 11010111110 11011101100 1101000101 101001011101 01110111010 1111011101 0101110101 1101111101 0100011101 11011101011 01100100111 1111011101 0111010101 01110110101 100111010100 110010101010 1111010111 11010111001 010010111101 0111111111 011100101101 11100101100 11111110101 01110100101 0110110111 010100001111 1011110001 1010111010100 1010010101 0110010101 1111110101 100100101011 11110100101 1011111101 1111110101 1111110100 11000011101 11110100101 0101111111 0100010011 0111110101 1011010100 10110111101 0101110001 1001000101 01010101100 1101110010 0110110101 01001110111 1100011111 1111000111 01001110101 010010111010 10010111000 0111100111 11000101011 0111011101 1001010001 11010100111 0111011111 0011111101 1101010100 1111111111 1100110111 1111010101 1011010001 1111111111 0101110010 0101111111 1100010111 1111011101 1101010001 10010101111 1101011101 0101110011 1101010101 1101110101 1111110010 1110100101 1101011101 1101011000 1001101111 1011101011 110101101000 10010111101 11000101100 10110001001010 11011011111 1101111101 1001111101 1101011001 0101110111 11110100101 1101111111 1101010111 1111010100 1101010111 11110011001 1111100010110 11001010011 0101011111 1101010101 1111111111 1001011101 0111000111 0111111101 1101011101 1101101101 1111010100 101010010101 1101011101 1101010011 1001110111 0101111101 1100110110 01100100100 1101110011 1101001100 1111010 1111 1001001011 1011011111 1001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 563
  • Amount of lines: 215
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i, we, in are repeated.

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

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