This is an analysis of the poem In Mexico that begins with:
THE CACTUS towers, straight and tall,
Through fallow fields of chapparal; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabC ddddbC ddddbC eeddbC eeddbC ddddbC ffXabC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 11110100 11110101 01010101 11010101 0101 111101001 01000101 11010101 1110111 11010111 0101 010100101 01011101 11010101 11011100 11011011 0101 11010101 01010111 11011101 101010101 11010111 0101 11111111 01010101 11110101 10100101 11010101 0101 01011101 01010101 01010111 01000101 11010111 0101 0110101 11001101 01011110 01011111 01010101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, in are 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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