This is an analysis of the poem The Bronze David of Donatello that begins with:

A sword in his right hand, a stone in his left hand,
He is naked. Shod and naked. Hatted and naked....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddcaeaaXcXbbXcXefgeXdhXhdibbjjjc bgaak Xfeiib acaXk chida Xlcaldaa abdcXgfdcegkd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,5,6,5,5,8,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011010011 1010111010110 010001101110 11010000101 1101101010 01011101010 01010 1010010 1010010001101 01101110100110011001 0110 10010111 0110 1010101100 110101010001 100011010 010101100 01110101010 001111101100 001110100010 111100 0111010110010 110010101110 10001010101 100011101 1101010010 1010100110001 0101101010 10100001010 0101001 1011011 011011101 1111 0111011101 0111110101 11010110110 0111110010 1111100101 1001011101 110101010101 10110011001 01111010101 0101000100 1101100100 110101101010 10110010 11110111110 0101 10101011010 1010010 11111 10011111 0110101011101 01010101101010 01011111010 011101011101 010110101010 1111001100 1101110101 1101001101 010110110010 11010011101 01110101011 1000101101 11001010 100101010 01111010 100110010 01100101010 1011001001010 11010011 111110100 01010 0111 1001000101 0101101011100 110010001010 1001001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • 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; naked, his, flesh, like, to, it, blessed, upon, and, wing, in, borne are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines separation, flesh, bird, triumph are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dances connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Bronze David of Donatello;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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