This is an analysis of Chiquita by Francis Bret Harte.
Beautiful! Sir, you may say so. Thar isn't her match in the county;
Is thar, old gal,--Chiquita, my darling, my beauty?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcd efgX eXfdg dfXXh Xfiic ifjbf ijhi XeifdX
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,5,5,5,5,4,6,
- Metre: 10011111100010010 0111010110110 10111110110101 110 11111011010011010 1011101111010010 1011011111010110 1010100111010 1011011111011010 1110111110111 10 10011111110111010 1001011111110010 11101111111011101 1011101110110010 10011111010110110 1011101111011010 111100100110101 11 1011001110111010 1011001110011010 11011011011010010 110110011100100 10 1001001110011010 10110011011110010 1101101111011110 1110100110110100 10 111011111110010 1010001111110110 1101011010010010 111101111110010 111101110111010 1011010110110010 1101011111101110 10 111110011101100 10
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
you, her, and, in, to, that
Anadiplosis
you
