This is an analysis of the poem Dolce Far Niente that begins with:
Is life worth loafing ? Come, recline with me
And lazily this fragant afternoon ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXddbef dXbbffgXhf gdXhbc beadXXcfXbfXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 1100010101 1101011101 0001010100 111000111 11110100010 1111111001 1111111101 11100110 111 1111010101 1111111101 11011010001 1101011101 01111100101 1101010111 1001001111 11010101001 1110010011 01101010101 0101110101 010010101011 0101100101 0111010011 11010101 01 11110101001 0111011111 1101001101 11010101001 11100011001 1111010111 1001011111 1111011111 01011110001 1101010011 1111011101 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Dolce Far Niente;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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