This is an analysis of the poem Pictures Of The Rhine that begins with:

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The spirit of Romance dies not to those ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbbbbaabbbbbbb X cddceffefbbfXe X ghhgdidifcfccf X jkkjgggglmlmlm a mjjjmXbbbmmhhm aXahahmaamcacahh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0100011101 1101010011 101010010101 1001010101 01001010111 0111011101 1101000101 1011110101 1001010101 01001010111 1011110101 11001010111 0101010011 0100010001 1 0101010101 1101010101 1011000101 01011100101 0101011101 01011111001 0101010001 1100010101 0101010111 0101001101 1101110101 0101010001 0101011101 110111010001 1 1101011101 0101010101 1001111111 1101011101 0100111101 0101010101 0111011101 1101011111 0101010101 0101000101 1111000101 1001011101 1101010110 1111101110101 1 0101110011 01010100101 1100110101 1011010101 1101010111 1101010101 1000010101 1101011001 11101101010 0101010111 01010111010 1100011101 01010101010 110101110011 1 1101010101 101111001101 1101011101 10010111001 0101010101 11000010101 1101010101 0101110111 1011011101 0100011101 1101010101 1110010101 1101010101 1011101110111 1 10010000101 01110110010 1101011101 11010111010 01000101001 0011010101 1101000101 1100111101 1011011101 0111110011 1001010101 1111100111 1101110101 110110010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, and are repeated.

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