This is an analysis of the poem In Front of the Mirror that begins with:
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
Me, me, me. What a preposterous word!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXabc dbabX XeeXc efdfa dedXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011010 1111001001 11111001 01010101 11001010 11101011 10111010 101001011 011110001 01011001 1101011 1110100100 1001111011 10111111 1101010100 101101101 11101101011 00111111 011010010 1111001001 11101111 11111010 1011011010 111101110 11011001001 0010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word can at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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