This is an analysis of To The Night by Ugo Foscolo.

Maybe because you always have appeared
The image of that fatal rest to me,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbc dada XbXbee
  • Stanza lengths: 5,4,6,
  • Metre: 1001111101 0100110101 111101111 0101010101 1101010101 1001011110 1101010001 11010101010 0101001111 11011101010 0001010101 11010101010 1001110111 11011111001 01110101010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15

Anaphora

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