This is an analysis of the poem Boston To Florence that begins with:
Sent to 'The Philological Circle' of Florence for its
meeting in commemoration of Dante, January 27, 1881,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa bccbXccbdaadda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101100001001010 10001010010101011 0101000011010 100100101110 11010001001 0101010101 101110101010 1100111001100 1101010101 11010100111 1101110101 10011101011 1011110101 1011000101 11011100101 1011111101 11001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of is repeated.
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