This is an analysis of the poem Within The Alamo that begins with:
He drew a straight line
Across the dirt floor:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXbXcacdabaefafghXhibiB eghgXbXbidideaiagcic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 01011 010111 01101 1010010 01101 10111 101001 111101 1111 11011 1101 11011 010110 10101 111110 1010111 1011 1010101 1111 1101011 1001 101011 01011 110111 1011 10110 00101 111010 1011 11011000 01011 101101 101001 111111 001111 1111101 01001 0011110 01101 10011 01011 11001 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 516
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, travis, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, travis, and are repeated.
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