Analysis of Rime 208
Gaspara Stampa 1523 (Padua) – 1554 (Venice)
Love made me such that I live in fire
like a new salamander on earth
or like that other rare creature, the Phoenix,
who expires and rises at the same time
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111010 10101011 11110110010 10100101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 162 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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