This is an analysis of the poem Repetitions of a Young Captain that begins with:
A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly,
The wind beat in the roof and half the walls....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc bcc dXa X eXd XeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,1,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011010010 0110011101 01011010101 01010110101 110101011010 10111010101 0101011101 00110100011 001000010100 1 0101001000010 101011001101 0101010011 1011010100 110010011001 10111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; that, in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word world at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Repetitions of a Young Captain;
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