This is an analysis of the poem The Captain’s Well that begins with:
From pain and peril, by land and main,
The shipwrecked sailor came back again;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb aa cc dX cX ee aX aX ff XX gg aa dd hh gg ii cc cc bX aa dd gg cc jj dd dd jj kk bX ll gg aa dX cX bb ii mm cX bb bb ee bb mm bb cc aa jX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011101111 0100101101 1110010111 00100111111 1111100111 110010100 1110111101 1111100111 1111010101 1111100111 1111011001 001100101 100100111 110110100 11111111 110111100101 111111011 1011101100 1010110111 11000110101 1110010111 110100101 111110101 101100101 1010101101 010010111 100100101 110110111 111100101 1101011001 11001100101 111001001001 10001101011 111101011 110101111 10101001001 10011011011 1111100111 101111101 11100110 1010111101 1110110111 1010110101 111100111 111111111 010101101 111111001 0111001001 11011011011 010011111 11101100101 010111110 111101101 111101101 11011111 1011100101 1111110111 010100101 111010110 111110110 1110111010 0101101110 1100101111 1110100101 1010111101 1110110111 1011101101 11101101000 010110101 1111001001 1010110101 111010111 111100101 10010111 1111100111 010111101 1101111111 1100111001 010110101 1111011110 110100101 11010111 10100101111 110100111 1101101001 101100101 101100111 0010101101 1101001011 10011101 1010101101 11101001011 1111011111 0010100111 1111111101 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 48
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, his, he, ', you, of, i are repeated.
The author used the same words 'i, 'the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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