Analysis of Ecco Mormorar L'onde (Now The Waves Murmur)

Torquato Tasso 1544 (Sorrento) – 1595 (Rome)



Ecco mormorar l'onde,
E tremolar le fronde
A l'aura mattutina, e gli arboscelli,
E sovra i verdi rami i vaghi augelli
Cantar soavemente,
E rider l'Oriente;
Ecco già l'alba appare,
E si specchia nel mare,
E rasserena il cielo,
E le campagne imperla il dolce gelo,
E gli alti monti indora:
O bella e vaga Aurora,
L'aura è tua messaggera, e tu de l'aura
Ch'ogni arso cor ristaura.

Now the waves murmur
And the boughs and the shrubs tremble
in the morning breeze,
And on the green branches the pleasant birds
Sing softly
And the east smiles;
Now dawn already appears
And mirrors herself in the sea,
And makes the sky serene,
And the gentle frost impearls the fields
And gilds the high mountains:
O beautiful and gracious Aurora,
The breeze is your messenger, and you the breeze's
Which revives each burnt-out heart.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111 1101 01101111 1111010111 11 1101 111101 11111 1111 1011111 111101 11011010 11011111110 1111 10110 00100110 00101 0101100101 110 0011 1101001 01001001 010101 00101101 010110 1100010010 01111000101 1011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 806
Words 146
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 14
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 319
Words per stanza (avg) 72
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 2023

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Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. He suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Tasso remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe. more…

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