Analysis of La Vita Nuova

Dante Alighieri 1265 (Florence) – 1321 (Ravenna)



In that book which is
My memory . . .
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words . . .
Here begins a new life


Scheme ABCDEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 01111 1100 1011 110101 1111 0101 101011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 144
Words 30
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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