This is an analysis of the poem Infelice that begins with:
Walking swiftly with a dreadful duchess,
He smiled too briefly, his face was pale as sand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcccccacccadccbcbceXXccXedc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001010 11110011111 1100010111110 10101001010 1111111010 1010111110010 1111010010010 11011110110101 111111111010 0101110101101110 100010110000110 11010101000100 10101011111 11000111010 11110110010 101001110111 110101100110110 111011010101 100010111010 10101000101111 110110110101 01111010110111 1100110111010 1011100010010 1011001110101 1011011111011111 101111101110111 1111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1435
- Average number of words per stanza: 283
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, dining, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase best connects the lines.
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- summary of Infelice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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