This is an analysis of the poem Bianca's Dream - A Venetian Story that begins with:

BIANCA!—fair Bianca!—who could dwell
With safety on her dark and hazel gaze,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcc dedfedegX gdgdXdhh cicicicc X jejejekX clclclmm Xcmcmccc dfdfdfiX hkhkhnoo X hXhhhhcc aoaoaoii cfcXcfkk cccccccc cpcpcpbb X hXhbhbbb imXmXmXg mkXXmkjX abababbX fXfhfhff X eeeeeXXdd kqkqkqrX gcgcgciki hnhXhnii eaeaeabb X hmhmhmbb dadadai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,1,9,8,9,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010111 0101011101 1111000101 100101111 0101110101 1101110001 11001110000 11110110001 1101000111 0101010001 1011010111 110101011 1 1101010101 1111010111 0101110001 1111010011 1101010001 1101010101 1001010101 11001000101 1010010111 11110010111 1101110011 1101000101 1001001101 01111101010 01010010111 01110101010 0101010011 11011100010 1001111111 1101110101 1 01110010101 0101001111 011010011 0101000101 100001010101 1111110101 010111111 0111010101 0101010011 1101010001 1101010111 1001010011 1101000101 1101110101 1111010101 11010100001 1011101010 0110010101 1011011101 010100001001 1111010001 0111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111000101 11110101001 0101111111 1111011101 0101011011 1111001101 11010111110 11110011110 1111011111 1101010101 10001110001 1101010101 1001011001 1111010100 0101010101 0111010101 1 1101011101 1011100101 111011111 0101010011 1111010111 1011100101 1111011101 1111010111 11001011111 1101110101 1111010101 1101010001 1101010010 1101100101 01110101010 11000101010 11011100011 0101110001 1110110101 1101010101 0111010111 0111010101 1101110011 0101010111 11001110101 1111010101 0111111111 0100111001 01111101001 1111010101 11110110101 1110111101 1101011111 0101010101 1011001111 1001110101 0111110101 1110110101 1101011111 1011100101 1 1001010111 1101010101 1101100101 1101010011 11001010101 0110111001 1101010101 11001010101 11010101010 1001010101 010101010001 0101010111 01110101100 0101010101 10011101000 1000101010100 1101001101 1101000101 1010011101 0101010111 1011010111 0100110101 1111011101 1101110101 1101010101 1111110101 11001110111 1101111101 1101100011 1101010101 1111110101 1101111001 1101011101 10110101100 1111011101 1101010101 0101101100 0101010111 1101001101 0101111001 1 1101110101 1111010001 1101010101 0101110111 0111010001 010101010 1 1101010101 1111010001 1101011001 0101000101 0111010101 0111010101 1101010101 1111110001 11110101010 01011101110 1101011101 1111010101 1001110101 1001110101 1111001111 1011001011 11110111010 101101111 10 1101010111 01011111110 0101010111 11010101010 0101011101 01010101110 11001101010 10010101010 0111110101 11110101010 1111010101 10110011010 01010001101 11110101010 1111110001 1101010001 1 1111110101 011011101 0101000101 11010010101 0101010011 0101011101 010111101 1101010000 1011111101 1101110101 11010011101 1101010111 0111010111 1101010101 11110101110 01010011010 11010101110 01000010101 111100010010 1100010111 1101110001 0101000101 110101110010 01010101010 11010011001 0101010101 1111001101 11001010101 0101001101 1101011101 0101110101 1001110001 11010100110 11001011101 11010011010 0101011101 11010101000 1111010111 110001010100 110100110100 1 1111110011 1101110111 0111111101 1101010001 0111111001 0111110011 11001100110 01111100110 0011010001 1100011111 1100010101 1101110101 1101010101 01010111001 0101111111 1101010101 1001010101 1111110001 1011001101 10010100101 1110000101 0100111101 11010010101 0111010101 1101110011 11111010010 0101010111 11010001010 1101110101 11111110010 10111000101 1001110001 1101111111 0101010101 1001010101 0101110111 1101011001 1101011001 1111010101 01010011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 293
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, his, he, nor, their, to, her, that, for, be, thy, my, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, in, and, her, a, be are repeated.

    The author used the same words in, but, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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