Analysis of What weeping, or what dewfall,
Torquato Tasso 1544 (Sorrento) – 1595 (Rome)
What weeping, or what dewfall,
Whose then were those tears,
Flung from night’s cloak, I saw,
And the white face of the stars?
Why was the white moon sowing
A pure cloud’s crystal mass
In the lap of fresh new grass?
Why were the winds heard, blowing,
Through the dark air, round and round,
Till dawn, with mournful sound?
Were they perhaps the strife
Of your going, life of my life?
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 11011 111111 0011101 1101110 011101 0011111 1001110 1011101 111101 010101 11101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 384 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 294 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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