This is an analysis of the poem The Dean Of Santiago that begins with:
The Dean of Santiago on his mule
Rode quick the Guadalquivir banks along,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXeefafXfefcgXXaXhX egegidjdXXaXkglgdmeXiejX jeieenhn dilijjoX flglijljidfX lmXmeaeX ehghogcX eXXjggXXmgkgiecXiXiXhimX aXnehlllndgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,24,8,8,12,8,8,24,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010111 1111000101 1101110101 01110111100 1101111101 0101010101 1101110101 0111010101 1011010111 1111010111 1101010101 1111010101 1101110001 1111011101 01010001001 1101100101 01111101010 1111010011 0111010111 0101011101 11110010010 1111010101 1111011101 1101101101 1111010101 1011010101 1101010101 1111000111 1111011101 1101011110 01011100101 0101110101 1101010100 1111011111 1111111011 1111010101 1101111101 1111010101 0111010111 1101011101 1101011111 0101010101 1111011101 1101011111 0111110110 0111010001 0101010101 0101111101 0101011101 1101011100 0101010111 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010110 1101010101 1111010101 1111110111 0101010101 0111010101 11010100110 0111101101 01001110111 0111011101 11011100101 1111011001 0111010111 0111010011 1110110101 1111010101 0100010101 1101110110 01000101110 0100010101 1101010101 1111011110 1011011111 1101011111 1101011101 1101011101 1101011111 1101011101 1100111111 0111100101 1101010101 1111010111 0101011101 1111110001 11010100010 0101010101 11010111010 0101011001 1111011111 1100111101 1101010111 1111111111 11110111010 1101011111 0100111101 1111001101 1101010101 1001110111 0111001101 1100110011 1101011011 1100010111 1111110011 10001011111 11010101100 1111000101 1111111111 0111110111 1111010111 1101010101 1111010101 0111001101 1110110001 1101010101 0111010001 1111011001 1101010001 1001011101 1111011101 11010010101 01010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 128
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', you, and, i, my, your, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, 'i, my are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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