Analysis of Blackbeard
Rattling swords brisk walk scuff knocking
Lantern in hand misty chance encounter
Bigger than life shadows overbearing attack
Famous black bearded pirates stabbing stare
Gigged on a pole warning all pirates beware
Blackbeard's empty throat dripping red blood forever
Beard and hair swaying in the cursed winds whistle
Severed head spinning in war battles revenge
Teach's Hole now drifts and moans in the moon
Ocracoke treasures never found in the lost fog
Buried and buried and buried again uncharted
Ghost enactments in death's ghastly reruns
A loud roar with a snaggled grin points
Two pistols drawn in the ocean night fire
Over and over in deaths never realized again
Ghost mirrored scenes living in frights mysterious past
Searching the riverbanks for his wandering head
Carolinas most famous ghost haunting tale begins
Sirens sing a smugglers song of untimely passing
Erie graveyards pirates dance entrancing fire
Scheme | ABXC CBXX XXXX XBXX XXAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111110 1001101010 10111101001 1011010101 11011011001 11011011010 10110001110 10110011001 111101001 1101010011 1001001001010 110011011 01110111 11010010110 1001001101001 1101100101001 1001111001 010110110101 1010101101010 101101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 921 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
The ghost sightings of Blackbeard have been claimed many times. The legends and the mysteries surrounding his death remain today.
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