This is an analysis of the poem To Italy that begins with:
As the sunrise to the night,
As the north wind to the clouds,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 1011001 10111001 100101000 1010100 0111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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