This is an analysis of the poem Written At Florence that begins with:

O WORLD, in very truth thou art too young;
When wilt thou learn to wear the garb of age? ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadbecAXcacccX acXaXcXeAaXadada
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011111 1111010101 10110001010 1101110101 1011111111 1111011100 1111011111 110100011010 1101011111 00101010010 1111011101 1111110101 0101101100 1101010111 1111001111 1101011100 1101011111 1111110111 1111110101 1101001101 0101111101 1101010011 11110111110 1100110110 1101011111 11011101101 1101010001 1101110101 01110000101 1111011101 1111001101 1101001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 728
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thou is repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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