This is an analysis of the poem An Arizona Cactus that begins with:
The burning sun has scorched the rainless ground,
Where the volcano's progeny still lie;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101110101 1001010011 1101110101 1101010101 11110101001 010010001011 0101011001 1011000101 1101011101 0111010111 010100101 0111110111 1101110101 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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