This is an analysis of the poem These days of mine, faster than a hind, that begins with:

‘I dí miei piú leggier' che nesun cervo,'
These days of mine, faster than a hind,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabacXddcbbXbcXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011010 110110101 11111111110 11111110110 11001101101 1011001100 10101110111 11110010111010 111001011101001 1010100111 1101000110 11101101010 111100111110 11001101110 1101010101 0101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, what are repeated.

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