This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas Written On The Road Between Florence And Pisa that begins with:

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa XXaa bbcc ddaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010011010 010111010110 1010110011110 111110110110 1110110011010 1110110011100 1010110011010 1111011110110 1101101010110 111010111010 1010110011010 111111010010 110111110111 011010011011 10101011110110 110111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, that, i, thee, it are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).

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