This is an analysis of To Florence by George Gordon Byron.
Oh Lady! when I left the shore,
The distant shore which gave me birth,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeXe fgfg Xhah adad gigi jbjb kkkk fgfX cece X
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 11011101 01011111 11010111 01010111 11010101 11010101 11011101 111101001 11010101 0101011 011101010 01110101 110001111 11011101 11011011 11111111 110111010 11110111 11010001 11010101 01010111 01011101 11111101 01111111 11111111 11010101 10111100 01010001 11111111 11010101 110100101 110010101 10111101 110100101 11010101 01010101 110000101 110010110 11110101 11010100 11111111 11011101 11111111 11001110 0101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
to, be, i
Anaphora
where
