This is an analysis of the poem How It Strikes a Contemporary that begins with:
YOU saw go up and down Valladolid,
A man of mark, to know next time you saw. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdefgfeheijXfbbfgdbehklceajiehjjkXXijilkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111000 0101011111 0101000101 1101110101 1101110110 0111111101 1101010100 1111010001 1001100101 1111110101 1111010101 1111011101 10110111011 11101010101 1001110101 0101010111 01100100101 1101001001 1001010101 0111010111 1111010101 0111010001 01010100101 1101011101 11101110111 1111010101 1111110101 1111000111 0101011111 0101010111 1111111111 1110110101 1101010111 1111010111 01010101001 1101111101 1001010100 0111000111 1101010011 1011011101 0111110111 1101001101 1111011111 1100011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2018
- Average number of words per stanza: 356
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, if are repeated.
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