This is an analysis of the poem Umbria that begins with:

Deep Italian day with a wide--washed splendour fills
Umbria green with valleys, blue with a hundred hills.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXbcdcdcbceecbXbacabbcbXaccddffaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101010011101 1001010100101 1001100111101 10110111011110 1010010101101 1011010010101 11111010100101 1011001001000101 10111101001001 10010010100111 10010010010101 01010010010101 101010010101 0110010010101 1010010101101 1100101010111 1001100110101 010100110001 10011011101001 100101011101 110101010111 10110010010101 1110011101001 1001010010101 1110011100101 10010111110 1101010110111 101001100101 11010101001001 010010011010101 111011111110001 11110101010101 111010110101 010101100101 1001010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1841
  • Average number of words per stanza: 308
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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; with is repeated.

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  • summary of Umbria;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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