This is an analysis of the poem Casabianca that begins with:
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dbdb XXef bXbf ghgh bXbe bebe bebe hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 111111 01110101 1111001 11001111 110101 01000101 011111 0111111 010101 11010101 011101 111000100 01110100 11110101 110001 1010010111 101110100 11010101 110111 01011111 100101 11011101 011101 11011101 10101110 110111111 0101011 11010101 110111 11010101 110001 11010101 011111 10011101 0101001 01111101 111111 101011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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.
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- summary of Casabianca;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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