This is an analysis of the poem Craven that begins with:
Over the turret, shut in his iron-clad tower,
Craven was conning his ship through smoke and flame; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fgfg ahah gigi hihi Xigi jdjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010010110 10110011111 1011110011110 11011010101 11010010111 010101011001 11010011111 011101111001 010111001001 10010110101 1010010111 01111110111 000100100101 1010101001001 11101110101 010011111011 1001110010110 10110111101 010100101110 11110011111 1111001101 11111100101 101100101 1010111101 11101101011 1100100111001 011010010111 010010111001 10100100101 10100110101 10101101001 1010010101 1010010101 10110101011 1001001101001 100100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, these, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, these are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases spoke, we connect the lines.
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- summary of Craven;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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