This is an analysis of the poem Casabianca that begins with:
Love's the boy stood on the burning deck
trying to recite `The boy stood on...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaaa Xbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101 100010111 0101101 11001010 10110111 10100101 10010101 11011111 110101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; stood is repeated.
The author used the same word love's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Casabianca;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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