Analysis of To Guido Cavalcanti
Dante Alighieri 1265 (Florence) – 1321 (Ravenna)
Guido, I wish that Lapo, you, and I
could board a vessel, by transporter beam,
that sailed by will alone, wherever seemed
desirable to go, beneath all skies.
I'd have our vessel proof to chance and gale,
and well supplied for pleasant times at sea:
we'd grow into a merry company —
good food and reveling would be the rule.
And Guido, we'd try beaming up the dames!
We'd take the ladies Vanna, Bess, and her
whom I discreetly call the Mistress Trenta:
love, of course, would be the main agenda;
that would keep 'em happy I am sure,
and well I know that we would be the same.
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Scheme | ABCDEFFGHICJKLA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111101 1101010101 1111010101 0100110111 11101011101 0101110111 1101010100 1101001101 0101110101 1101010100 1101010101 1111101010 111110111 0111111101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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