Analysis of Imitation
Count Giacomo Leopardi 1798 (Recanati) – 1837 (Naples)
Wandering from the parent bough,
Little, trembling leaf,
Whither goest thou?
'From the beech, where I was born,
By the north wind was I torn.
Him I follow in his flight,
Over mountain, over vale,
From the forest to the plain,
Up the hill, and down again.
With him ever on the way:
More than that, I cannot say.
Where I go, must all things go,
Gentle, simple, high and low:
Leaves of laurel, leaves of rose;
Whither, heaven only knows!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 101001 1011 1011111 1011111 1110011 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1111111 1010101 1110111 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 328 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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