This is an analysis of the poem Captain Teach Alias Black Beard that begins with:
Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port
On board a privateer, in search of sport,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbbb eeffaa Xbgg aaXX ffdd Xghh Xfiiffbb ffff ffXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101001011011 1101000101 11001100110110 11100101110101010 1000101101001110100 101000010011101 10111001010010 1111111100010110 1101110101111001 0110000100010110011001 110111010011101 1011101011101 1011010100111 1110001000101 101010001010101 1111010101001011 110100011010010 11111011101 11101101011 1101010110001 110101010111010 11111010111101110 0110111001100010 1001111110001 100111111001 1110001111111010101 0010101110101 110101001000101 110100100010110 10010011110010 101001111101010 110101110010100101 100101100101 111011011101 111110111010 1111101111101 1111010010101 110110111010101 11111001101 1010110011011 110011111011 1011001101011011 110111010111 1001010100101 10100010101 1111110000101 11010100111 11010100111010111001 110010011110100 0101101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, and, he, men, his, then, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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