This is an analysis of The Old Bridge At Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Taddeo Gaddi built me. I am old,
Five centuries old. I plant my foot of stone…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXXcXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001011111 11001111101 0101011101 1101010111 0111010101 01001110101 1101010101 0101101101 1101010010 01001010101 0101010011 1001100100 1111110101 1111110011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
me, it
