This is an analysis of the poem Lament For Ignacio Sánchez Mejías that begins with:
1. Cogida and death
At five in the afternoon....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a BbcBdBb XBeBeBbBXBfBgBcBhBbBdBBb dBgBdBiBgBgBgBBbjb d C kdd C bggg C eXj C dhddXbgalC ggbmekidCcajgnXmC jmgggggcokdlgaXbkdXjhoggloej djgehggcjhiXbppglCcccgnlC i XXkj ggbd gong bjnX acld bqXg lncgc jghc bgca ngXg begf jghg e qjln ldlN gggN nabg ljhaXXbnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,24,18,1,1,3,1,4,1,3,1,10,17,28,25,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110011 1100101 01010100101 011011 1100101 01011001 1100101 01111101 0110010100 1100101 10111010110 1100101 101101010 1100101 1010010001 1100101 01111 1100101 100111 1100101 10100010 1100101 101010011 1100101 10101110 1100101 10111100101 1100101 111001 1100101 1100101 110100101 01011001 1100101 11111001 1100101 10111001010 1100101 01110000100 1100101 001001011 1100101 10010111 1100101 0101011 1100101 1100101 1110100101 0111101 01100100101 1011 10110 10101 111110101 00100101 10110 01110 1011 1011101 01100010 10110 1110010 10100 010110 10110 0100101 1111 100101 1101 1010100 1011101 1011100 1001001 1 10110 01001101 01011010 11101 101111 111010011 1010101 111010010 10100101 1111010 11110101 11011 1110101 010111 1001001010 001010 1111111 1111010 01011 111011 1010010 1011 101010 11010101 1000101 10011 11110010 110101 11101 1111 1010010 101001 11010100 0111010 01010101 1001 10110100 0110100 101100001 1001000010 110001 11001 110001 11000010 10100010 1000010 1111011 101101 100110 010001 11011110 100110111 101101 10010001 10100101 101111 01010100 100101000 11101 111010 11100100 1100001 1 10110 1101010 110110 1101110 111101110 11110111010 1 10110 101110 100101101 011010110100 1001011011 01101110110 11111010101 10110101 0011011101 11011011011 1110111 1001110010 1111110110 10111111111011 101000111101 10101010010101 111010110 111110101100 10100110101 0110110101 11110101 101101001 1011001010101 1110010111101 0011111000 11101010101 11001111011 1111111110010 1111011101010 1111011011 01010010101 1110111011 11110110110 11010010011 00110111 1110100101 010100101 110100011 10101111 1100110011010 10111111 0101000100101001 011001010001 100100111001 1100101101 1001001011010 1001100101 111010010100 11111001110 101001101100 11110011 1101 0111111011 10101010111 01101011111 01111010 0100011111 101111110 1101001111 01111010 010010111 1011101 111010011 01111010 01111110 1101001 110111010 0010101 10011111101 1010011011111 00100100011010 0110111101001 00100111010 00001101001101 1101011110010 11001000111 1101001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 221
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, at, five, afternoon, it, his, how, oh, of, no, bull, rings, you, nor, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, at, it, nor, what, how, oh, no, nobody, those, because, like, of are repeated.
The author used the same words here, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines afternoon, it are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words afternoon, it, forever at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase singing connects the lines.
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