This is an analysis of the poem Ricordi that begins with:
Of a tower, of a tower, white
In the warm Italian night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabA bbcb ccdc dXed eefe ffgf gghg hhbh bbab aaaaXaaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000101 0010101 001011101 1110101 0100101 100111 111011 01001001 00101101 1110111 10110101 011111 0010111 111101 0100101 10101101 0101001 00100101 01010101 101011 1011101 01101001 1000111 101101 1010101 110111 111111 0100101 111101 1111101 110101 11001001 1010101 0110111 10101 00100111 0101001 1011101 1110111 1100111 0100111 010101 0100101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, tower, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same words of, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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