This is an analysis of the poem The Latest Martyr (Mexico 1926) that begins with:

The morn is sweet and radiant with blue sky over all,
There’s a flame of Oleanders over the adobe wall,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddee eeff ddeeXbbee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01011100011101 100101001000101 101110101111101 11010111110101 110100110100101 100101011000101 110100101111101 110111100101 0011111011101001 111001010101111 111110011110101 111110100010111 1110101011110101 1111011101010101 011100101111111 11110111110101 011100010111111011 1111110101111001 1010101111111101 1111101011110101 111110110110111 011010101111101 11111010010101 1111110010010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, for, our, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of The Latest Martyr (Mexico 1926);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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