This is an analysis of the poem La Corona that begins with:
Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,
Weaved in my lone devout melancholy, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabcaaddacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 1011011010 1100111100 110011001 1110011011 0111010100 1111011111 01010111011 0111111111 1111011101 0111110001 0011011101 1111110101 010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, crown, our, ends are repeated.
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