This is an analysis of the poem New Mexico that begins with:
I was fairly drunk when it
began and I took out my bottle and used it...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXacXXcXbXddab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 011111110110 01011110011110 101101111 101 110111 1011011110 1111111010 11001110101 1110111 1011111010 101100011110101110110 110011 0100 10110111 010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of New Mexico;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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