This is an analysis of the poem What Spain Was Like that begins with:
Spain was a taut, dry drum-head
Daily beating a dull thud ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXadXceea fddfe ebddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 1010011 101101 101101 11001010011 11111111 1110110011 01101010110 011010010001 1101011 1100111010 10101011 1101011001010 111110 01010011010 111111 1100110010 101101010 00111 01110110100 1010011010110 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, your are repeated.
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