This is an analysis of the poem Sancho Sanchez that begins with:
Sancho Sanchez lay a--dying in the house of Mariquita,
For his life ebbed with the ebbing of the red wound in his side.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXc dddd efeX ghgh ihXh eaXa ijij akXf kdkX gdgd Xkdk haaa ieie Xebe glgl daXa dada hlal dada cece gagX gmgm gcgc aaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101000101000 1011000100011001 1111111111100100 001010101011101 1110001010100010 1001101010100001 1110100010100100 1111101100101111 1110011011100010 1110101001100101 110001000111110 1111100100010011 1111111101110010 01010111110101 1110101011111010 101000101010010 1110101011101010 101111100010001 1111001010101010 111010110110111 111001001101010 101111111010111 1111111010100100 01001101110101 1111101000110010 1100011110111 1110101011111110 1110011000011001 1101101010101010 101111101111101 11101101010111010 011000101110101 111101101101010 001011000110011 1110001000101110 0010010100110101 10101010111101110 10101000101001 0111100010111010 1110111011111010 1111101011101010 001010101111101 1011001011110010 101100101011111 1010111110111110 111010101010101 1010111110011010 101010101011011 1110111011101010 101111001010101 11110101110110 01111101010001 10110011100100110 001010101110101 0011101001101010 101010101110101 1011011010101100 111010111110111 1110101110111010 10101111010101 1010101010100110 001010100101111 1010101011111110 101011100010001 1111001011001010 101010101010011 100101000111100 0010010101111111 10100010011110 10110010011111 1010111000111010 101001101111011 10101001011111010 110010101010001 1010100010101110 1010101101010101 1110101000111110 111000111010111 110101101111010 111011111011111 1110101011111011 111000101011111 101011101011111 111000101111111 1110001000110110 101000101010101 10101011011101110 11111010011101 1111101010101010 101000101010101 1110010010101010 101000100011001 1010101010101010 101111101010101 10101100010100010 101010100010011 1011101010111110 101110101010101 1010111110100110 111010111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, in, of, i, have, to, he, '', it, from, our, me, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words for, and, meaning at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sancho Sanchez;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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