This is an analysis of the poem Matanza To Welcome Spring that begins with:
for Pat and Victorio
Spread eagle sheep legs wide,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcdecafgchXifjkbbckclfbl lXdlllmmebjaenbfgfjggamXjbfabfii bnkefffehoXnoniXn nbnkne nXbXai d biXXgaXmXXXXkikXlX XianffmXXXXXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,25,32,17,6,6,1,18,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 110111 101011 111011 1011101 11110 0011 01101101 10101 101101 1110111 101111 01011111 111111 1100101101 100111 011011 00111 111101 111011 001 1101 110001010 111 110 110110 011011110 11 110101 1100010 00100110 10111 00100101 1101111 1110 0101101010 10010101 1111 111010 010001 01110 11111 111001011 001011 101 00101 0111 1011011 1111 110 1110001 110101 110101010 0010 10101 001101 11010101 1010111 0110 1 1 10 100 100 10 10 11 1011101 01 101 1100 0110 00010 0 010 10111110001 1110101100 0110111001110 10101111101 10110110 101010 01111111 1010110 11111 11011111 11110001010 01111100 0111 1011 10101010 10 110110 010011 0101111 101010 101 101010 101010 1111 101010 11101 01 10011 00110 01101 01111 01011100 010101 11110011 1101 0010011 1011 1101001 101010 111 101010 111 010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 118
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ssst, pom, i, thumba, ba, umba are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words tonight, commit at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ba at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sing connects the lines.
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