This is an analysis of the poem Spain 1873-'74 that begins with:
OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds,
Out of the feudal wrecks, and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXXXc XXcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100101001 10010111110001 1011010101001010100 10010100100101 1101011001101 010111 011011010100 0101001001 10011 111011010 11111011010111 11111010101111 1110101101010 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; of, out, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, a, thou are repeated.
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