This is an analysis of the poem My passion's folly is so led astray that begins with:
‘Sí travïato è 'l folle mi' desio'
My passion's folly is so led astray...
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXbbbaXcbcXddb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011110 1101001101 11001111 11011101 010111 10110101 001101011 111011111001 010111110 110011010111 101001010 111110110011 100100100101 101110011 110101110 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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