This is an analysis of the poem A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra that begins with:

for Dore and Adja
Under the bronze crown ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abba cddc bccb edde fggf hXXh bffb bbbb fbbf daad heXh ciic jXXj bccb ckkc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 10011 111010011011 01011001 1101010111 110101 10110010111 01010101 0110010111 0111001 1011110101 10011101 01010010001 110001 0101010101 10010101 01010000111 010101 110100001001 010101001 001001000101 11011 00101110111 11011000 1100011111 0100001 11001001101 01011101 1010110111 1100001 0011011001 01110011 10001010111 00101001 0101010001 11001101 0011010101 011101 010010100001 0101000101 1101010101 010111 1100110101 0100110 1011010101 101101 11110100010 1101011110 001001010101 110101 10010111010 0101000 1001110101 010101 1011011100 11010101 11010001011 111111 1101011101 010010011 01111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; in is repeated.

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