This is an analysis of the poem Marianna Alcoforando that begins with:
The sparrows wake beneath the convent eaves;
I think I have not slept the whole night through. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdceaefXgdhbhhfchcdhfehXifdajeckj XfjalccXhXcaliejbkXihbXabkhlXchcafhacgcXcea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,43,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 1111110111 111101101 0111111111 1101010111 0111011100 1001010101 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1001011000 1101010100 1101010111 1101110101 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101 1011011100 111111011 1101010001 111101011 0111010101 1001010101 1111010101 0101010101 0111110101 1001011100 1101010101 1101010101 1101011111 0101010101 111111100 0111011101 1111110101 1111110101 1101010001 0101010111 0101110101 11001010101 0101111101 1111111111 1111010111 0111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 110101101 0101010101 1111010100 01010110101 0101010001 1101010001 1111110001 1101010101 0111110111 1011011111 0101010111 1101011101 11011001100 1111100101 1101110001 1101010101 0111011101 1111110101 0100010111 0101110101 11010110101 1101110101 1111110101 1101110101 1101110101 01010101110 1100010110 1101010100 0101010001 1111111101 0111010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1150
- Average number of words per stanza: 212
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, and, her, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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