Analysis of Buona Notte
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
'Buona notte, buona notte!'--Come mai
La notte sara buona senza te?
Non dirmi buona notte,--che tu sai,
La notte sa star buona da per se.
II.
Solinga, scura, cupa, senza speme,
La notte quando Lilla m’abbandona;
Pei cuori chi si batton insieme
Ogni notte, senza dirla, sara buona.
III.
Come male buona notte ci suona
Con sospiri e parole interrotte!--
Il modo di aver la notte buona
E mai non di dir la buona notte.
Scheme | AABAX ACDCD ADBDX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1 111111 1110111 1111111 11111111 1 11111 111101 1111101 1111101 1 111111 111011 11110111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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