This is an analysis of the poem The Improvisatore that begins with:

Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining.
Katharine. What are the words ?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b Xcde fg ddhh igj k bklmne op d l b fk g plb g ffiaq m rdb flmk fn d fm i a f X lgoffbjfllolsp dc rg ffmoobgeliepmfpbffomme f f rloffbeorrXXlcilpajsla pfm dlookfjepffpa pjc oomX l Xl g X lolottXemmooiieeidid llmqmqdpddpdoo lilirrlttllddd bXblalbboaobd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,2,4,3,1,6,2,1,1,1,2,1,3,1,5,1,3,4,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,14,2,2,22,1,1,22,3,13,3,4,1,2,1,1,20,14,14,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10101010101010 101101 01011101000011111010 0101100110010100110 11010111111011 10 100011010011111010 10100100011011000 11010101 11010111 1101010011 1011110101 0101101101001011011 1001011001010011111 11101010 11110100010001010 1101011101 100111101010 10101011111 1111111111 11101111001 11111111110 10010111110101101 1010110110111 1111 10111010 01010011111 10011010101010010 110010 100101101 1101111010110 1000011010011100101 101 010110100 11001001100010100 1100111010101010 100010110100011000 110111010010011010 0101100111011 0101010111010111010 1011000101010011101 10100010110110111 101001 1111001001110100 101011100111010 0101011100101110 11011010 10100101111011001000 1101101001 1010101101111 010101111110110010 101011111010 1011101111101 0101111111010 111011010 01001001 1111110111010011 0110100111100111 111010100010110001010 11011001111000100 11101100111001000 111000100011001010010 0010101001100010010100 100000011000011100100 01010000101100100100 0101100010001011 0110010011100011101 011000100011111 10011101111010111 01110001 0101010110001110 10111101111010101 10111011110100101 1 1111101001000000 1101110000100100100 1010001001001010001 110010010101000010 10100010110110011 100111101110011 101001100100001001 1111100001010010 0100001011011100111 011010100001001101 011001100010011010100100 100101001111100 01001101010100011 100011100111010 10010100000101011110 1010101110010011 1101101001001000 101001101111100 01010101001000111 0101010110100110 010101010001101010 1001000101010 0101010111010010 100001101010 111011100111010101 101010001010100111110 011110100110100011 1010101010110110110 10101010001011100010 1011000101001010 001011001110110110 100010010010001 10110000101011101 01010100101010101011 01011010110010010 1101001001010101010 11100101011011001 0101001010101001101 011100100110101101 11100100111001011 10110010011111010 0100111100101110110 10111011111010100 101111110010011 10101011000010101 10101100100100 0100100010010001111 1100111011111100 10 1110101001010101 100100000001001010101 01000101011011011010 00101101001101001 010010011001010110 100010111001000110 10000100010011010110 00010000111100101010 010010001101000110 011001010101000010 1011011100000100 101001010101000000 1000111010 1011111101011010 100110011101010101 01 111011111111010 10111010110111101 001011110111010010 011011110001101010 010101110101111010 10101001010111000 01010111011001010 1100100110 1011000 11111101 11110111 11100101 010111 1001110001 011000001001 011000010 1011111100 110010011001 10001 110101 110101 110100111 01111111 110101110 110101110 1101011111 0111011111 1101011101 0101010011 11110101 00011101 01011010 10110111 11011101 110100111 1100101101 110111001 01010101 111011 11011101 11010001 11110001 01011101 110010101 1011101 1110101 11010111 1110111 10010101 110101001 1101011101 1111010101 0101011101 1101010101 0101010101 01010100111 1101111 1101010 0101010 1101010 1011010101 011111010010 1100110101 0111010101 11010111101 110101111 00010001010 1101110101 1111110111 110110101 10001001101 11010111 11011110 01001111 11010001 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (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; same, one, we'll, and, i, you, eliza, that, of, in, or, his, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, friend, the, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the, idea, a, or are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word idea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase eliza connects the lines.

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