This is an analysis of the poem Sirmione that begins with:
Give me your hand, Beloved! I cannot see;
So close from shadowy--branching tree to tree... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadddeefcccggg aahhhhaiiffccggffjj kkhchcllhhmffm aaffnnffffnn kkggXhooaaffmmggiXggddffpp ggffcckkdXggllXhhXffkkhhkk llmmcckkhhggggmmaaXhkkllffoogggggjjmmhhXfaXXooohhffggggddXfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,19,14,12,26,26,61,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101101 11010010101 1111011111 1111010011 1101001101 1010110111 1011010011 0101010101 1011011101 1101110101 1101010001 11010110101 100101 0011110111 10011011101 0111010001 11111101001 1111111101 1101011111 0101110101 1001 1101110111 1011111101 1111011101 0101011111 0101001001 00110011001 1101110101 0110111101 10001011001 0100111101 1001110101 11110110011 01010010101 01101100111 1001010111 01110101001 1110011111 1100011101 1111010101 1001011101 0001010001 1011010111 010101 1101110101 11111110101 11011100101 0101110011 0111011100 01010100001 01110100101 101101 1111011101 0011110111 010101 11010101010 01010111010 1101110001 11010101111 1111111101 011101 100111 0101010111 1101010101 1101110111 1111111111 1111011101 1000111111 1011110111 0100011101 10100100101 1011010101 11011100101 0101001101 10110110001 10111011110 10110100010 10011000101 1100001101 1101011111 1101110111 1111011011 1011010101 1111001001 111100001 1111111111 0111111111 0101010101 0110110101 11110111010 10110110010 11010111001 0101110101 0101011111 1101001001 1011010111 0101010111 1111011111 1111010101 0111010111 1111011101 10110101101 1111010011 10111001001 1101010001 01110111100 01010011011 1111110101 0101001000 1111010101 11001010101 1111000101 1101110101 10111101110 11111111010 1101010101 1101111111 1111010101 1111101111 1111110111 0111001000101 1111110101 0100010101 10111100101 11110010110 0101010011 1011110011 1111110001 1111011101 0111111101 10001011101 1011110111 1101000101 1100110111 11011000100 1111101110 1000110000 1011010101 1111010101 1001111101 1001011101 11111001101 01110100101 1011111101 1101010101 1111011111 0001010001 1101110001 0111010011 0101111101 0100110111 0100011111 1111010101 0101010001 11010100101 0111011101 100111101100 1101010101 01001110101 1011011101 11111101100 11110001010 11010011110 01010101110 1101101111 1101001111 1111010101 1001000111 11010011010 1011110111 11100010011 1100010101 0100110101 01101110111 1101111100 01000100101 1101101101 101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1091
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 178
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; on, and, love, your, some, they, no, light, as, of, it, nor, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they, the are repeated.
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- summary of Sirmione;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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