This is an analysis of the poem A Welcome To Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould that begins with:

ON HIS RETURN FROM SOUTH AMERICA
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS DEVOTED TO CATALOGUING THE... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab cdcd efXf cbcb ebeb gcgc hhXX Xihi iiii hhhh jfjf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010100 10010010010100 10010101 11010101010 1110011111 11110111110 01010100101 10110111010 0111000101 10110111100 11110100101 111001100010 1011110001 1010110100010 11001011101 10111111010 1101110101 10111101110 1111000111 011100101011 10110010101 101101100101 1001110101 11110111110 0101010001 101101110100 1101111000 10110101100 1101000101 10110101110 01010101001 110111010010 10101011 00110101010 0011010101 111101010110 1101110111 11110111010 1111110111 100101101010 1101010101 01110101010 1111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thy is repeated.

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