This is an analysis of the poem Captain Von Muller that begins with:
A Skipper of mark was Von Muller,
The humorous naval leg-puller. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba Xcddc eeffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010011110 010010110 001001 11001 1010110110 111010011 1011011010 101001 111001 011010110 011110011 010110011 11011 101011 1010010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; his, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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