This is an analysis of the poem At The Grave Of A Spanish Friend that begins with:
Here lies who of two mighty realms was free;
The English-Spaniard, who lived England's good... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbaXXcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110110111 0101011100 0101010001 1101110100 10011001001 11011000101 1101111011 0111111101 1111001101 11110101100 11011101110 0101110101 11010101001 10010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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