This is an analysis of the poem Old Spanish Song that begins with:
I'm thinking of the wooing
That won my maiden heart... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadede afafXbXbdede XdXdgfgfdede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010 111101 1111010 010101 0001010 010101 0111010 0011101 10101010 1010101 1111110 010101 1110010 011101 0100110 110111 0101110 00100101 10101010 1010101 1111010 011001 1101110 110101 1111110 010101 1011010 0101001 10101111 1011111 1100011 1111101 1111110 1011101 1101110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word no at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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