This is an analysis of the poem Sailing Home From Rapallo that begins with:
[February 1954]
Your nurse could only speak Italian, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXcdbceefX XdXdcacXbbbgfXXXgedbX aXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,21,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 111101010 1101010110101101 111111 11010100011010 011100101100 1100010010 0101011011 10111001 01010010110 0101010011 101011001 01000011110 11100101000 10100010 10100100011 110010100100 1100110 0011010 011111001 11000110110 10110101010 01111101111 0101011 110010010011 01010001011 11011001010 10001101010 10010001010 100010 111011101 1010101010 01010010100 101101011 1110110101 00010010011010 10100110 01 111100001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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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