This is an analysis of the poem Bel Canto that begins with:
The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp,
And salty light reveals the Mayan School. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcc ddddddde fffgfgbb Xhfifhff gcgcgcjj bcbcbcXX khkhdXcc lmlmlmdd Xefemehh idininee edenlhdd ceceXenn gogogodX ebobXbee gddpgdqq bmbpbmdd XckcXcee grgrgrhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011101 1101010101 0101111101 1101101011 1011010101 0111010101 0011001101 011101111001 1001011101 11000100011 11110101001 1111011101 1101010111 1000010111 11011101011 11110101000100 10110101010 11001000010 11111101010 10010101010 11010111110 01011110110 1101010101 011101011111 0101101010 1011010101 01010111001 0100011101 1101101101 1011000011 1011000000010 01001010110010 101010101010 10110111011 110010001110 11010101010 11011011010 110111101011 1011010001 111101110001 010101110100 00010111010 110101010100 10010110010 110001100100 11011111010 10110010100 1101000101010 11011110110 111111111100 01111101110 111101110100 00111111010 110100110100 11110100010 1101011011010 11000101110 01110011010 10010010110 01011111010 01110110010 10111101010 11010111010 0011011100110 00011101110 11011111110 01010110110 01011111010 01010101010 01110111010 110101100010 110101010010010 1101010101 0101010001 0111010111 1101011101 0101010101 1101110001 11010111110 1101010100010 11010111010 10111101010 01010111010 1101111001 10111100010 0101000111 10100101010 1101010100110 11101010101 01011101010 1101011001 10010100110 110100100 01010101110 101101010010 1111010100010 11110101110 1101010111 00010101010 0011010101 11011101110 1101010101 11010111011 01101111100101 00110111110 01110011110 11000111110 01011101010 10110001110 010011011110 110101110100 110111010101000 010011010100 010011100111 110101111100 10010101011 010101010100 11001101011 101101110100 01010101110100 1101011010100 11110001010 100111110100 11110101010 101111100100 11010101010 11011100010 010100010101010 11110011010000 11001101010 110100100100 00010111010 0100011010000 00110111010 011111110100 10111111110100 0111010101000 111101011101 0111111101000 111100101111 111111010100 111111110101 11011100110 1111001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 161
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; in, it, to, and, what, i, as, your, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, in, to, the, do are repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Bel Canto;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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