This is an analysis of the poem New Mexican Mountain that begins with:
I watch the Indians dancing to help the young corn at Taos
pueblo. The old men squat in a ring...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc XXXd Eafa XfXd XeXaXEbfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100100101111 100111001 11010110011110 111111001 01101111000101 11111011 110101011110 0101110101011010 100101000101111 0101010010 0101111110010010 010101111 1101101010011 010010010100110 100100101001010010 100100010 1001010001001111 111100100110 11001110010011101 1001010100 100101000101111 01001011101 10110100110010 110010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; young, has, it are repeated.
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