This is an analysis of the poem Two Songs Of Spain that begins with:

Fountain, cans't thou sing the song
My Juan sang to me... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBabcdcdABEX fbfbghgXABEX ijidkXkXabeX ffggffXjgihXffgX iXgXjXffiicc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,16,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 11101 01110101 110101 11110101 110111 11110111 111111 11011101 11101 11010111 110111 1011101 110101 11111101 010101 11111101 110101 11010101 110100 11011101 11101 11010111 110111 10111001 011101 11000101 110101 11111111 010101 01010111 01100 11011101 110101 11011111 110111 01011001 11001001 01101101 11001101 01101101 101011011 11011010 01011001 110010001 101001111 01101101 01011100 11011111 11001011 11001001 11011111 11001111 11101011 11011001 01001010 11001111 110011110 11010111 11111101 11111111 1110011 11010101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; or, my are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word fountain at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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