This is an analysis of the poem A Vacation that begins with:
On the streets of Mérida, beggars and vendors
of shirts and hammocks and panama hats....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXbefgh Xgagiega jXjekkdX lc lbXibdbbfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,8,2,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010110 0111011011 10111111110 11110101101 1111011010010100 1011010110101 11011010001 11101010001 1111111111 1101011101 111001001 100111110101 11111101010 011100101001 0011111011 010101111 11011 10110110101 0101101010110 10111011011011 111010100110 11101011101 0111101110 11110101011010 11100101011 0111100100010 0100110101101 1101110 1101110101010 110000111111 11110111011 1111101 100101100101 111110111011 11101111100001 0010010111101 11001101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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