This is an analysis of the poem Look What You Did, Christopher! that begins with:

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two,
Someone sailed the ocean blue....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbdadee CCbbfgXhfaffXhfffiggjjj CCbBkaallgmgfkfkfnfjnXbbXfbbfffgcXcXkmkkmooXfppieeoaobBooXajdj ccoXglX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,23,62,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101101 1110101 110110101 1010110101 101001011001 1110011101 11011111 1101011010 110011101 1101001010 110101111 1010010101 111111111 1010110101 10110101 10101100101 11010 1101 110100101 1101 10111 0101 10101 01011010100 101011100 1101 11101 10101 01101 0101 101001 0010100101 1010111001 01000 0111 111111111 1010110101 100110101 110110101 11110 1111 110010101 1101010100 10110100100 10100101010 1010 11110 1001 101011 01001 110010 1010 11000 1010 11001 1010010100 11011010100 11001001011 110100101 1101001010 101110010 11010101 10100101101 110010 010100 11010 010100 1101 010100 11111 010100 11100111 111010110110 110111011 0011 11010 1101001001 100100101 0101001011 110101011 1111001010 1010111010 11011 0101 1100100101 110111010100 111111 010100 10101100101 110110101 101010110100 101010110100 101011001 111101111 1100101001 01010 1001 111111101 1000110101 0010010 0110 11010101 11110110100 110100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 788
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, there, came, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, there are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Look What You Did, Christopher!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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