This is an analysis of the poem The Rhyme Of The Rio Grande that begins with:

In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,
I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I used to know;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbX DCb ebfFaaaDCX gdg bbaacX DCHhccffhDCX bXeeiifX DChhffbbhDCX gghhXeaX DCaaDCHhfFhDCX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,10,3,6,12,8,12,8,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011101111101 110010100111101 01010101011111 11111001010111 11110111111111 1110101111101 01010101110110 11110101110111 1010 101 01100 111 100110101 101010110101 101010100101 101010111101 100110010000 111010010111 1010 101 10010 11011101010101 001110111110 111 01110111110110 011011101110111 01110111111101 11110111100111 110101010101110 111010101010011 1010 101 10111 101110010011 1000010110101 101011110111 101010010101 101010110001 1010111011111 1010 101 11111 11110101110101 1010101111000110 110101001110101 11010001111101 111000101110101 11111101110011 101110101110111 101010101110101 1010 101 001011 1011101011101 101010110101 101110111101 101010110101 101011100101 111010110101 1010 101 10100 11011111010101 11110001110101 01110101110101 10110101010011 110101001011110 111011101110101 111011101110101 11110111111101 1010 101 11101 101110110111 1010 101 10111 101010010011 011011110101 101010100101 1010100011111 1010 101 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, i, as, ninety, and, we, seven, he, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he'd, not, and are repeated.

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