This is an analysis of the poem Captain Paul Jones that begins with:
Cap'n Paul Jones was a Britisher born, he hailed from the Solway shore,
But he struck a snag with his folks at home, as many have done before;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb dXedbb ddbXeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010011100101 11101001111101101 110111001111001001 11101111110100101 11110100110101001 1010010111100111001 11001111001101101101 0111111100100100101 11110100111101101 00 10 101110111101101 110110101111001011 111111101001101101001 11110100110110101 110100101101001011 101001001110100111 10110 10 0100110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, to, and, learned, 'em, of, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word cap'n at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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