This is an analysis of the poem Five Visions Of Captain Cook that begins with:

I
COOK was a captain of the Admiralty ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdefgXfhdijedegkgdhgjededlkfakdXhedeXgbidiehXXXbXXdjeXflXjmkmlngcejfmekgeegggmkXkXggddkkjjhheejjookkllXepephdhdfefeqeqejhjhaeXeafhgefgdXkhhklkXXgdfkkafXckerdenehealegXkmaedgmglfjmokXojefkdXfrjdefkfeeabrhedhgeojXggXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 218,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11010001000 111010101 1111010101 110100001 1101000101 11011110110 11110011101 1101011000 0111010101 1101011110 11110101101 0111010101 1111010101 1101000101 11100110 11010001001 1011010101 110110111 1111001111 0101110111 1111110111 1101111101 10010010101 11110001 11001110101 11111100 1111010001 1100110111 0101101 010111010 1111100101 110100001 1101001111 1101010011 011101101 1001011101 1101010111 1111010101 01110111000 0111110111 0101101100 1001111101 01111111 1001000101 0111110101 0101010101 1111111100 111100010 1 10101110100 01011100010 11010101000 11010010011 11010101 0101011010 01110101 11010001010 1101010101 10111110101 11011111 1101010001 1101010101 1101110101 0111010101 1111110101 1101111 1100111101001 1101001111 1101011111 11011101001 1101011111 01110101100 0111010011 1011010111 1101011101 1101010100 10111101 1101 0101010101 01001110101 01000100001 1111100100 1011110101 1 110000101 11101111 111000111 10101000101 10111000111 10101010101 10101000111 1010101010101 10101010111 10101000111 01110101110 1010100101 11010001001 0010101000101 11110100010001 10101111111 110111101 001010111 1111111 111100010001 1 01011101 11010101 10010101 11001011011 01010101 11011110 11011111 0101110001 11101101 01110101 11010111 01110111001 11110001 01010101 101100111 1001010101 10010111 01110111 11010101 1101011111 1 1001011111 1101111011 0101011101 11110100101 01010011 1100010101 0101001111 1011010011 110111101 1001010101 110000100101 1101111111 11110100111 1101010101 011101 1101 11110111 0111111101 1101111 0111110011 1011010111 1111010101 1111111101 01111101 1111011101 0111010101 11011101101 011011101 1101 0100010111 11000110101 111111110 11001011101 1111010101 110111101101 11001101101 0101110101 1100010101 1101110101 0101110100 1101000101 1101011010 01001000100 0111011001 100100011 0111010101 1101110101 0101111110 01111110101 0101010101 0111010101 1101110111 1111110101 1011000101 1111010101 1111010111 01010111 1011010100 1101101101 1101101101 11111001010 1111011010 1111010101 1000110101 010101010 110100010101 0101010110 110100101111 11110010101 1000101101 11010100101 0101011101 1001110101010 1011110111 10101010101 11111011001 011001010100 110011100110 11010010101 1101110101 01010110101 010101001 1001010101 1111010101 0101010111 11110111101 100101101100 0111110101 01001110111 100000010001 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 9301
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1647
  • Amount of lines: 218
  • 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; of, one, cook, his, tock, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, so, could, of, one, and, in are repeated.

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