This is an analysis of the poem Acapulco Goldie that begins with:
She was dancin' when I seen her, in a Mexican cantina
In a neighborhood they call 'La Zona Roja'. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX bCd XbacXbCdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1110111000100110 001011111010 110111111001 011010101010 1010101011 1111111 111010110101 111111011111010 111110111111 111010101111010 1011111111111 1110101011011 1111111 1110010110101 1111010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, she, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, then are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gold is repeated).
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- summary of Acapulco Goldie;
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