This is an analysis of the poem The Mosque Of Cordoba that begins with:

The succession of day and night
Is the architect of events....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbAcAdbb Aedabf Abgh iijj fbka ejXb lffig mbj enX kf fopaq loqq jfda bqq fnnn ioli bfaooa qiaeqc oalbd kdafa aXked hXfamb diig jcrr ibfo oadgj aofkb fflb ffbgp hXel XliXd flfb qddfj cja aopfp qk palida Xdbj derd faok jfkb copd daqqjX asdb fhqb qdafa hdhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,4,4,4,4,5,3,3,2,5,4,4,3,4,4,6,6,5,5,5,6,4,4,4,5,5,4,5,4,5,4,5,3,5,2,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,5,4,5,3,3,3,3,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,3,3,3,4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100111 00101001 00100111 001010111 00100111 0011101 0100110 0100100101 00100111 0001010001000 010 1010000100 101 00100010100 00100111 001100101 11001011 11001011 11011110 1011110 101100100 101100100 11000100011 11 0101001001 1111 11101011000 00100 101100100 01001100100 0101000101 010 01010001011 010010101 101101111 100100100 01000010100 101000110 1001010001 01001 11010001 11110101 11010011111 0010001111 1010100110 10 1111111 01 10010100 10010010 10010001 100101 10100110010 1 100101 100110 1000100101 100100010011 01 1001011 1000101 100101 1001001 0111110 1100110 0110010 10101010 101001101 11 0111111 0100 0100010100 110010 0100011 010101100010 1 1010100010 0101 0010101010001 01010110000 1 111001 11010010 01 101001110 11010100101 0010010101 010100101 01101101 01010101 11010001000 10100 101110 010 11001010111 111110110 1011010101 11 10110101010 11 1100101010 1100101010 100100110 10100010101 1101100 010101000101 111001010 1101001010 1010110 11010 1001001 0010100 11011001000 1 1110010010 110101101 00100010010 01001001 101010100 100 000100100101 110 0111100 0010101 101011 1000101001 1001001 101000100 010 1011101001 001010 011001 0010110101 010000101 00100101 00100110 10101 10011010 100 11000010 1100010 01000010 01000101 0100101 101101 01000010 010010 010010010 0100 0100101 00100010 100010010100 100100001011 0100010000 010 001011101 1011010 001011001010 010100110 1010010 1001001 110011010 100 101111010 10 000101000100 00100100100001 10 11010100100 100101110 100101101 110100010 010 1100110 11010000110 1110101010 00100001010 110010 0101001 0010010 1111 11101 1110100100 010001100 010101010 111011 101010 1001000011 100 1010010100 101111000 110001001101 00110010 01010110 11101 01001100 1010001001 1101110 0100110100 1001001 1110011010 1 11101011 10011110 011001 0100010010 0101001 1010100010 11011111010 10 1110001 1100111010 0010010 1101011101 0101 1101010101 1001000100010 01 1111001010 0101000011010 11 10110101 111101010 110010100100 101 10001 1010101000 100 100101001 00100100 01101001 0010010 0011000 1101010 1111100 001001 111110 0111000 1001010 11010011 01011101 111010010 100 10110001 001010 1010010010 1 1010101001000 11111 01001001101000 1 011010010 010 101010011 11 010101 001101010 0110101010 101101 01011101010 101001001 11010010100 0010 10101010111 00111010 0101100010 1000100 010110010 0101100100 10101100010100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 65
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 270
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, and, all, love, life, my, your, his, with, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, now, death, love, my, your, his, he, you are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, love, your, a, their at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wanting, destiny, god, life, majestic are repeated).

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