This is an analysis of the poem The Sunset Gun that begins with:
Off Santa Cruz the western wave
Was crimson as with blood:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABab cdcd cecX bfbf eXeX ghghXABab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 01110001 011101 11011111 110111 01010111 0100111 110010101 011111 01000100 110111 01011101 100111 01000101 110101 01011001 110101 11100101 1101010 01010101 110101 01001101 111101 11010101 110101 01010111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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