This is an analysis of the poem Ugolino that begins with:
INFERNO 33, 22-75.
Now had the loophole of that dungeon, still... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aba cad ede ded fef efe gdh dhd XXb ibi fff fff jfj fjf bfb gbg kXk gkh fhf bfb fbfXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010111 1101101101 110101001001 11111100100 0101000100 11010100011 1101110101 1001010101 1001010101 1101111101 0111010101 0100010100 1001111101 0110010001 010011001 1001100101 1001110101 1100011101 1111010101 0101010111 1101111101 1111111111 1100110011 1101111101 1101101111 0100111100 10110111101 10010101111 0010101110110 1101000111 110110110010 0111001101 1101110101 1111110101 1101110101 1111010101 1111011111 01111101001 1111011101 0101111101 0011111101 1101010101 1101010011 01001011101 1101011001 1011001101 1101010111 1001010111 1011110101 1111011111 1100110100 1001011111 1111110101 0101101111 01001100111 0111110111 0101011101 11010110111 1111011101 1111111111 1101101111 0101111111 1111110101 1111010101 1001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; in, and, thou, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase three connects the lines.
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- summary of Ugolino;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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