This is an analysis of the poem To A Castillan Song that begins with:

We held the book together timidly,
Whose antique music in an alien tongue ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbcddcddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010100 10110011001 1101011111 0101100100 1101110100 1111111111 11011110111 0101010101 1101110111 1101011101 0100011111 1001111101 0111110101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

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  • summary of To A Castillan Song;
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  • history of its creation;
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