This is an analysis of the poem Captain Dobbin that begins with:
CAPTAIN Dobbin, having retired from the South Seas
In the dumb tides of , with a handful of shells, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXabcdaXabedfbgahagXchbdaahijaakblmbcaanoabaaamahhpXaXbghaadbaggXgabXkqladdXqphdXXaabaaaqbhXXXaagXhqbaXagcaeanahaXkaakXgihhhajaemogdmmgggdadgigjbhgdmmdihmamaafXbk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 165,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010010011 00110001101 0110100101 111010001001 11010011010010 011100101 1010101 101101100110 1111010001 1101101000101 101011111001 11110111 01010010101 0101001 10011101001 100111101 11010011010 1001 111101101010 11011111 1011011001001 1010100101 01101100100100 100101010 11000100001 101010100110 10011011010 1111001110 111010 111 1111010011 11010101010 01100010101 110110110010 01110001 10110101 101011010101 010100110 110101001 101010 100111100 1100100010101 010101011110 110110101 100101000101 101010011 111100101001 1011111011 1001110101 0101110 1001010101 1010001 100011111 110111011 01010101000 011100101101 01010101 1111011100 1111000101 10110111101 11110010101 1001010 10110101 1011010101 1011001101 01010110111 11001 1000100110 001011110111 01010001001 0111010101 01011111000 110101 1101110101 100010111 11011101 1110100101 1100001010 11110101010 110010101 1101000101 010100100101 011101 111111010100 1111111010 1101010011 110011100101 111011 1111 010001011011 11011100101 11010110111 0100111101 11001110001 110101 11111110 100011 101010010101 1111110101 1111011101 111010011 11010100010 1011010101 01101001 10110100100 11011100101 010100011100 10100111 1100010010 0111101001 111111001 10110001010 01011100100 01011101100 11110101 1001010101 1011001100 01010101001 11011001 101010100 01010101 1101000101 011100001 1001010111 1011011 110011110101 11001010001 01010101001 01010111010 1001000101 01010111 1111000100 111100101 11110110001 1111110101 1101010101 110101001010 0101000101 10010110010 01011101111 10010101010 1001010111 111101100110 1011010101 11011010101 1111010101 100010 101111101 0101001 11010101011 1101111111 101100101 0101001 10111 1111010101 010011 110110 011100110101 101100101 1101110011 10110 1100001 0010101001100 01010011101 101011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6834
- Average number of words per stanza: 1166
- Amount of lines: 165
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, and, in, ', from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, by are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Captain Dobbin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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