This is an analysis of the poem How Florence Rings Her Bells that begins with:
With shimmer of steel and blare of brass,
And Switzers marching with martial stride,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd bbbbb bXbbX efXef edeed cgccg chcch iXiid jgjjg daddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010011101 110100101 110110101 111010101011 011111101 11011010010 111110101 1101001010 01001011010 1100100101 1101100101 10100101 1111100101 1100110101 0100101111 110000111 10110111 1011110111 100110101 111101111 1111100111 1101100101 1101101110 110101111 10111101 110111101 1100101101 100101101 1101101111 1100101101 0110100101 10110101 00100100111 110101101 111110111 110100101 110101111 010010111 1011011111 110011101 010111101 1101100101 1100110101 10100101001 0010100101 110111001 1100101111 10100101111 11100100111 1100101101 1010110101 10011101 1101101001 0101110111 01001010010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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