This is an analysis of the poem El Capitan-General that begins with:
THERE was a captain-general who ruled in Vera Cruz,
And what we used to hear of him was always evil news:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbB ddbb eebB ffbb ddXB Xfbb bbbB aabb ggbB ddbb hhXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100110101 11110101111101 11010101010101 011010101101 1101010110101 01110101010101 11010101110111 1011010101101 11010101110111 11010101010101 11111101011101 011010101101 11010100111101 11000001110101 11010101110001 1011010101101 0101100111111 1110010011101 11010111110111 00101010101101 1100110110101 110111001110101 1111101011110101 1101010101101 1110101001010010 01011001110101 10101110110001 00101010101101 10010101111111 01100101010111 100010001111101 1101010101101 01001001110101 010011101110101 111101001111101 111110110011101 1111111110101 11010110111111 11010101111011 1101010101101 00010101010101 1110111010111 111110111111101 111010101101 01011101010101 01110101010101 01110101010101 10111010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, he, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the, it are repeated.
The author used the same words there, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word salvador at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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