This is an analysis of the poem The Old Retired Sea Captain that begins with:
The old sea captain has sailed the seas
So long, that the waves at mirth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedeafaf fcfcgaga hehXieie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101101 1110111 1011110101 0111101 11110110101 1110101 010110101 10100101 111010111 1110101 1111110110 10100101 11001001010 0100101 0101101010 1011101 1110010101 0010111 0100100101 1011111 010100101 1011101 1100100101 10100101 110111101 1111101 1100110101 00101100 101110111 1011111 11100110101 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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