This is an analysis of the poem Captain Carpenter that begins with:
Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime
Put on his pistols and went riding out ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef bgbg ahXh ihih hhhh cbcb ajaj khkX clcl bmbX ibib XcXc hhhhXbmbm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010011001 1101011101 1111011111 1110010001 01010101101 1101110101 110110010101 1110011101 1010010111 1110000101 1110010111 0100110110 1101110011 0101011001 1101110101 1111111101 1010011001 0111111101 11010101010 0111111111 1111010001 1111010101 1111111101 0111011011 11010010001 00110111001 1101010110 0101110111 1010011101 1100010101 1111000101 01010011101 10101010001 0110010111 1101011111 1101010101 10011110101 01010001001 1011111111 110001111111 01010111011 10001001010 1101100101 111101001010 1111110001 11110100101 0100011001 10110110110 01010111101 1101010101 01001001101 1111010101 110111010010 1111110100 100101011010 1101101011 1111010101 1110010111 0111110111 11111101000 0101010111 11010100101 1101110001 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, him, his, he, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Captain Carpenter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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