This is an analysis of the poem Captain Reece that begins with:
Of all the ships upon the blue,
No ship contained a better crew... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX cXaa ddeX ccff ccgg bXhX eXaa XcbX ccaa cciX eecc bbaa eeaa hhiX cciI XiXe aaXI iidX Xbdd aafX eejj kkiXXbbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010101 11010101 01000100 11011101 1101011 01110110 01010001 01010111 11010011 11010111 11000100 010111001 11011101 11000101 001101001 01010101 1100011001 11110101 11010111 11011101 1100110100 11000101 0100110100 11010101 0101010 01110011 01010001 1101011 11010001 01010101 01010100 11011111 11010101 101111111 01110111 101010001 11110011 11010111 001101110 11110101 01010101 01011101 11011101 101010101 11110101 01010101 11011111 101110101 11011110 01010000 01010001 101010111 11010001 11110111 111101010 01011101 01010101 10110011101 00110110 101010101 11010011 1111010 01010001 101111100 01000111 01111110 00110110 1010100101 11010111 11100111 010100110 01000100 11110101 10111010011 101110111 101010101 10010111 11111001 11011101 01010111 01000101 100010101 0101011 101010101 11010011 11010101 001101110 01010111 11010101 01011101 01110110
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she are repeated.
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- summary of Captain Reece;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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