This is an analysis of the poem Two Sonnets From The Spanish Of Francisco De Medrano that begins with:

Causa la vista el artificio humano, etc.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbXcdceffeeX d a gffghXihdiidjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110110001001100 01010100110 010010101001 1101011101 01010101010 1101111000 01000101011 0101010101 0101110101 0101010101 0101011111 1011110101 1100110101 01001010111 111101010100 10110 1110100101001100 1101111101 1001010001 1101110101 1101011101 1011010101 10010111100 01010001101 1101010101 1111110011 1101010101 1111000101 1111010011 0101000101 111101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, all are repeated.

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