This is an analysis of the poem To Italy that begins with:
O Italy of chiming bells,
Of pilgrim shrines and holy wells,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa bbcca cXddX eeffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 01011101 00111101 01111101 100101010 11000101 11010111 10010101 11000111 1001010010 11010101 111000110 0110101010 1101001010 11010100 11010011 01010101 11110111 11011111 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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