This is an analysis of the poem Rispetto that begins with:
Was that his step that sounded on the stair?
Was that his knock I heard upon the door? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1101110101 11110111101 1111111111 0101111111 01011011011 0101110101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; that, i, wind are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word was is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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