This is an analysis of the poem On Leaving Rome that begins with:
ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND RESIDING IN THAT CITY
O lately written in the roll of friends,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefghXbXceiehjk ebdlmnhXgbolXhkldjXhlbp blhkjeXbedXkdnccplbcdhfhhjghljemccgbjheXheXkdohee abdhXipheobjjbXbbodkl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,23,49,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010010100110 1101000101 1101111101 1001100100 0101110011 01010111001 1100011111 11010111001 01000100100 11010011101 1101011101 1111010011 1101011101 11001110101 10000101011001 0101110001 1100010101 1101110101 1111010001 1011110101 1111010101 1101010001 1101110101 0111011011 0101011101 11010100100 1111011101 1101111101 10110001001 1011110111 010101100 1011001111 1000010011 1001010001 1111110011 1101010111 0101101100 0101010001 1111010111 1001011111 1110010001 1111110111 1001010111 11110011101 1001011111 1011010101 0001001111 1101010100 10010111001 1111110101 1111000111 1111011110 0100110101 1101010001 1101101101 0101110101 0101000101 0101010101 1101010011 0111001111 11010111001 1101010101 1101000101 0101001100 1101001111 1101011111 010011111 1111010001 0111010101 1111111111 0101010101 1101111111 0101010101 1101010010 0101110101 1111110101 1100010101 01011100101 0101001101 1111000101 01000011101 10101100101 1101010110 0011010001 1101011101 0101010101 001011010001 1011010011 0101010101 1011110001 11110010100 1101011011 01010111101 1101001011 1001011000 1001101101 1111011111 0101100011 0101011101 1101111111 1101010100 01001010101 1001010101 0101110101 1111111111 1111010101 1001110001 1111011111 01001111101 1100011111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1153
- Average number of words per stanza: 217
- Amount of lines: 111
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, i, of, we, full, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, as, the, but are repeated.
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