This is an analysis of the poem Dear Lorca that begins with:

Dear Lorca,
These letters are to be as temporary as our poetry is to be permanent. They will establish the bulk, the wastage that my...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXaX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110 1101001101011100000100100100101011101000101001010101010111011110011100101011010001101110111101100001011001100110001000001001110101010111010 011101100010011111001101110101011101010011101101001001011001011101101010110110101010100001101011111011010010010010010100100110100110101101001101010110101010101100101010101001101101001001000100 1111010101101011011001001101010100101001111010100101001010001010101100010 0110100010011011101100111001111111001011100110100111010111011010011011001001100100110111010101111110011000100110011100 11110111010 1 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1094
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 243 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 41
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, it, in, be, poetry, that, by, our, and, these, letters, up, tradition, word, nothing, they, i, other, prose, or, each are repeated.

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