This is an analysis of the poem Captain Von Esson Of The “sebastopol” that begins with:
Of his beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn’t the slightest hint,
But he comes to me as a little man, with a scrubby beard and a squint,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbXa ccdd eeff ggdd ggaa hhhh gggg hhbb hhii aaee jjkkXggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 001011011001110101 111011010100101101 00111001111101001 00110110110110111101 011100100110101101 11101001010110101 1111101010111001 11010010111001001 11111010110101001 10100101010100001 10001010011100101 01000101111011101 11001001011110101 1111101011110111 1100111110101001 1110100100101101101 11010010011100111 110111010110100101 1101001011011111 10101101111100101 1101001111110101 11010010100100101 01011001011010101 1101011010110101101 1010011010100111100 11101001011111101 0101101111010111 0111101111010111 0101001011010101 010110101111000111 010110101111111 01110110110100101 111111110001011011 11110010111100111 11011110100101101 11011011100101101 10111001111110101 111011011100110101 11100111010010101 01010011111101001 1100101011010111 11010011111101001 11001001011010111 11101001101110101 0110110101110101 10101101111110111 11001010100111011 011011010110101101 01100010011100111 1100100100110100101 1111001011001011 100101001011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 73 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, or, with, in, of, laugh, for, her, on, he, live, man are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the, she are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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