This is an analysis of the poem On The Meeting Of GarcÍA Lorca And Hart Crane that begins with:

Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane's
been drinking and has no idea who...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdXeXXfeghijejkXhjgbkgeigfghldgjljajXXiahggXlXgclgggjl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101011 0101110101 010010100010 10010100100 011110 0101110110 111011010 1110110 0010101001 11001001 110110100 011010111 10100101 010100110 110110101 0101010 1101001 10101101 11010111 1000111 01010101100 11001011 1101001 1001010001 11110010 1011010110 1010101110 1010111010 11010111 10100111 1011011 0010011 010101110 010010111 11100101 0110101001 011100111 1100101001 10111111 010101000100 0101001110 1001100110 111110100 11010011 10111011 111010100 10101010100 111100111 10000101 000100100001 101011001 101100111 010110010 11110011 001010011 1101010 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1949
  • Average number of words per stanza: 363
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, his, let's, not, from, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, the are repeated.

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