This is an analysis of the poem Sublime Was The Warning that begins with:

Sublime was the warning that liberty spoke,
And grand was the moment when Spaniards awoke ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccccb ddbeeffb ggbcchhb iibjjiib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01101011001 11101011001 001101001001 11001101011 1011011001001 101011011001 11001101001 111011001001 001011001011 101001101001 001001101001 1110010011001 11101101101 111101001001 101011001001 1011010101001 11110011001 011011011001 101111111101 11011101111 101101011111 1011010011011 101001001101 001101011001 11001101011 101011001001 001001101001 111011001001 01001011111 11001101011 011001011011 011001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, its are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word spain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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