This is an analysis of the poem Recuerdo that begins with:
We were very tired, we were very merry--
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbcc AAddee AAeeffa GgccXX GgXXhh GgcXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010 111111111010 01111111010 111000101101010 11101110101 101011010111 101010101010 111111111010 11111011101 00100111111 1011110111 101110010001 101010101010 111111111010 111010100001101 1101010110011 11110110101011 1110111011111 10110010100 11101111010 11111101010 11101011110 1110101011100010 1111100001101 111101010111110 11101111010 11111101010 111010101111010 11010101101110 11010101101 111000101101 11101111010 11111100010 111110111100 01010101110110 11111010110101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; we, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words we, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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