This is an analysis of the poem White-Collar Spaniard that begins with:
We have no heart for civil strife,
Our burdens we prefer to bear;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dedefefe fcfcfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11010101 11010101 11010011 01000111 11110111 11011101 00111001 01011011 11010101 11010101 10111101 10110101 10110101 11010101 11010001 11110101 01010101 01010101 10110101 11110101 01001011 11011111 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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