This is an analysis of the poem Black Stone On Top Of Nothing that begins with:
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon
around the apartment building covering the front door. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdXeXfdgchiefhhaceehXjXeejXjggdciab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110100001011110110 01001010100011 1110101010010101 00100101011011 1001101010110100 0101111010111 11001011100010 1010101001011001 010011110101110 110101010011010 011001010101111 11011011011010 1101101001011010 110101110100111 101010100101011 1110111011000 010101101101010 0010011001111010 11100101101111 11101110101010 10111011010110 1101111010101 00111001010010 11001000111011 0010111111101 1111011101011 11101100101101 0101111010111 001110001101001 0110010100101000010 1000110111111 0010010111101011 10100111011110 111011011010110 10100100100000111 01001011110101 10010101111101 1100101001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2262
- Average number of words per stanza: 394
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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