This is an analysis of the poem At Tarragona that begins with:
If I could know but when and why
This piece of thoughtless dust begins... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgggghihiejej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 01010101 01110111 11111111 11010101 10110011 01111101 01110111 11010101 10001111 100111001 10110101 01111011 01100101 10010101 11010001 11010111 11111111 110101011 11110101 1100100101 01110101 11111111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 846
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, not, in, life are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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