This is an analysis of the poem April In The Huasteca that begins with:

Dark on the gold west,
Mexico hung inscrutable like a curtain of heavy velvet ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaXXcXcXbcXdXbbcXXXcdcaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 10110100101001010 010101 1101 110111001 0101010001 10110010010 10101010010110 101010 110010110 01101010 10 1101011010010100 101010100101010 101000011010101 111001001011 11010101 010010101 11010 11100001010 110111111 100101 11100010010 1110111 011011011 101011101101010010 01010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1044
  • Average number of words per stanza: 167
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; mexico, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mexico is repeated.

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