This is an analysis of the poem At San Sebastian that begins with:
The Countess sprawled beside the sea
As naked a she well could be;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccdd eeaaffgX ddggccee gghhbbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11001110 01010100 0101101000 01000101 11010111 0100101 01010111 01010111 11110101 11011101 01001001 1010010101 101110111 11010111 011101010 01010111 11111111 110001010 010111010 11010101 11011101 01010101 00110101 010001001 11111011 01010011 01110001 110111110 0101101110 11010111 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; she is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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