This is an analysis of the poem Beware My Captain that begins with:
You have to cross the darkness of the night
A desert vast and a hill of great height,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX CCdeddfX aaagghaabb hidXaahXeie jjekek XbeXbidCCfXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,10,11,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010001 0101101011 111010011 10001111 010100 010010 0101010 101001001 1011011010 110101010 01011 110111111 01010101 111110110101 1111101011 01001010101 01010111 1100010 1110010101 0011001001 11100101101 11101110111 11100100 110110 010100101010 0111101 11101 101010111 010100100 11111101 1101011 11110 0100010111001 10101001001 10100011101001 1001101 111001 1111011 1110101 111010001 0010010111 1110110001 11111111 1101111 0001110 1110101011010 010100 010010 0111001 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, who, you, them, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, who, you, what are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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