This is an analysis of the poem North And South that begins with:

Come with me, sweetheart, into Italy,
And press the burning goblet of the south... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effc eggX hiih Xcca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011100100 1101010001 0111010111 1001010100 1001110001 0101110111 0111010101 1111110101 10011101001 0100111101 11001010101 01001010101 0111110101 0110010001 0101010001 11010001001 1001001101 1101010111 0101010111 01001110111 1110110101 0111110101 1111110100 1111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word drink at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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