This is an analysis of the poem A Toccata Of Galuppi's that begins with:

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Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbb X ccc X ddd X aaa a bbb a bbb X aXX X XXX X aaX e fff a ggg X bbb X Xaa X hhh X bbbXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 110010000010101 111000110111111 111111101010101 1 111011101110001 111111101010001 111010101010101 1 101010111111111 101010101110100 111010100101101 1 011011101011101 111101111010011 111110101010111 1 101010101111111 1010111010110101 1001010101011101 1 1101100010111101 101011101010101 111111001010101 1 111011101010111 101010101010111 110000101111111 1 011011111110111 111001101010111 101000101010100 1 111010101111111 110011100011111 111111101110101 1 111111101011111 101110101011101 111001101110101 1 111110101011111 1110100101010101 0110111011111001 1 111010101010111 111011101011101 011000101011001 1 111011101000100 101011111110101 101110101110100 1 111010101010111 111111101110001 101111101010101 1 111011101110101 111001111010101 101111101110111 11100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, where, and, those, '', you are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines '' is repeated).

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