This is an analysis of the poem The Sensation Captain that begins with:
No nobler captain ever trod
Than CAPTAIN PARKLEBURY TODD,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccd eecbbX ffdgXd hhibdi aajeej kkgXbg llmXXm bblaaX kkXhhX lljaaX ggjXcX aacnnc bXooX bbdccX aaXkka aXXllX cXXoXooX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,6,6,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010001 1011111 11110111 11110101 0100010 11111101 01110100 0100010 11110101 01010101 01110000 11010101 01010001 0110010 11010001 0110000100 1101010 110111001 11010101 1101010 1001001 01010100 1101010 11111101 01001001 1101010 01111111 110100011 0101010 11010101 10111111 1001011 1101111010 01010001 1101011 11110101 11010101 0101110 11110101 01010001 1111110 1010100111 11010101 10001010 01110011 10011111 11110110 01110101 00010101 1111010 11010111 00010101 0101010 111011101 10010001 0111010 11010101 11010101 01000100 01000101 10010101 1111010 11101010100 01010101 1101101000 10110101 11110101 1111010 11011011 11110101 0101010 1010110011 1011100010100010 11001001 11000001 01110000 11010101 100001001 0101010 01010101 10010101 111001100 01111101 11010001 0110100 10010101 01010001 1101010 10100110101 10101001 11110100 10101110111 01001101 01000100 10000101101 1011011100 10101110100 11110111 1000011110 11010101 01011101 0101000
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; so, or, he, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of The Sensation Captain;
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