This is an analysis of the poem The Pine Forest Of The Cascine Near Pisa that begins with:

Dearest, best and brightest,
Come away,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbddeeffgghhiibbccjj bbcccchhbb ckgclglk amam nbnb hchl gaga jgXg lklk aaaa gogo pjpj kbkb bkbk abab kjkj aaXa hghg phph ijij babaXghgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,10,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101110 101 0011001 1010101 11101010 10101010 0011101 0010001 0100010001 00010100 1010101 1011111 10101001 0100101 100100101 10110001 11010101 11010101 1100101010 110101010 11010101 11111101 10010001 01011101 0011101 0011101 1010101 1010101 1011101 11110101 0010001 101001000 10110101 11001111 010010101 11001101 11110111 01010101 11011101 01010101 11000110 110101 01011001 010001 010010101 010101 11011101 010101 01100101 100101 11010101 010101 11010111 010001 10110111 01110101 11010101 110111 110010110 110101 001000100 010111 00110111 011111 011000101 001101 001100111 010101 010100001 010101 01010101 110101 11010100 010101 11110101 010101 01010011 101101 11000111 110101 11010111 100101 111101 1000101 01010001 100111 11010101 110101 01010101 100101 10110111 110101 110100111 001101 010011100 011101 111111001 110111 011100101 100101 11101101 110101 010010101 011101 111100001 011001 11010101 010101 010100111 110101 10111101 111101 11101111 010101 11010111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to, in, and are repeated.

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

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