This is an analysis of the poem Song For 'Tasso' that begins with:
I.
I loved—alas! our life is love;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccddd Xeebbfff XXaffggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011101 11110111 11011101 11111111 1111011 01111101 11110111 1 11111111 11011111 01010111 11 10111111 11001001 111100101 1 011101111 01010111 11010111 1100 110101001 01010111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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