This is an analysis of the poem The Plains Of Mexico that begins with:
There's a country wild and weary, and a scorching sun looks down
On the thirsty cattle ranges and a queer old Spanish town,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbc ddbc aabc eebcXaabbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101011101010111 101010101011101 101111101011101 1011101010100111 101011101010101 001010101011111 101111101110001 1111101010101111 111010101010101 101110101010101 111010101010101 1011111011101111 001010111010101 1110101101010111 1110101011100111 101110101011111 111111100010101 10101001110111 101110100010101 111011111111101 101011111110101 101010111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mexico at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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