This is an analysis of the poem The Disabled Debauchee that begins with:
As some brave admiral, in former war,
Deprived of force, but pressed with courage still,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece XfXf ghgh caca fifi gcgc jhjh dXde ahXhXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1111000101 0101110101 1101010001 1001010101 0101100111 0111010001 1111000101 0011010101 0011100111 1011110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010001 1011110101 10001010010 1011010100 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 01100100111 110101001 1111010001 1011010001 1111111101 1101110111 1011100101 1101010101 0111010111 11111000101 0011011101 11001110110 1111110011 1101011111 1101011101 1001010101 1101110101 1111110001 1101111110 1011100101 1001111101 0111101101 1001010101 11011101010 1111011011 1101110001 1101010001 1001001101 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, and, of, boy, to are repeated.
The author used the same word from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Disabled Debauchee;
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