This is an analysis of the poem The Spaniards' Graves that begins with:
O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you
The day you sailed away from sunny Spain?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede cccX bfbf ghgh dada eeeeXhaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100111101 0111010101 1111010111 100101 0111011100 1001100101 1111011101 011011 1010011101 1111010101 1111110111 111101 1001010111 1011110101 1101110001 1101000 1101010001 1001010101 1101011101 111101 0111010111 1011111101 1101111111 111111 11011010101 1101010101 1101010101 111101 101010011 1111111101 1111010101 111101 1111010101 1111111101 1111111111 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, could are repeated.
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