This is an analysis of the poem Recuerdo that begins with:
We were very tired, we were very merry --
We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbccAAddee AAeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010 1111111101010 01111111010 111000101101010 11101110101 101011010111 101010101010 111111111010 11111011101 00100111111 1011110111 101110010001 101010101010 111111111010 111010100001101 1101010110011 111101101010101 1110111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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