This is an analysis of the poem Rovigo that begins with:

ROVIGO STATION. Unclear associations. A drama of Goethe
or something from Byron. I traveled through Rovigo...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcdaXXeddXXaccXXbecadXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010101001001 1100101101100 11101010111101 10110010000010 11101001 0101101001101 110011101011001 10111101101000 10101001100010011010 1110100101 0010100110111 0101100110 101101101101 11101010 010101010 10010101101110001 010101010011110 1001110010010101010 010100100111010110 1110101011 01110001101001 1101010011111010 0100110111011111 1111000101 01001111101100 01001000100110 10101010010 11111011100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1376
  • Average number of words per stanza: 245
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; of, rovigo are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.

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  • summary of Rovigo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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