This is an analysis of the poem From Tuscan Came My Lady's Worthy Race that begins with:

From Tuscan came my lady's worthy race;
Fair Florence was sometime her ancient seat.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcXbXbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101110101 1101110101 0101110111 1101010101 1011010101 01011010101 0100010111 0011111101 10010100110 1001100111 1011010111 11001111001 1001010001 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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