This is an analysis of the poem Saltbush Bill On The Patriarchs that begins with:
Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee;
To-day, you see, is Christmas Day, and so it’s up to me ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc ddeE ddff ggeE hiaa cchi ddjj kkee ddff ccll mmnn aacc jjee ggcc jjooXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110100110111 01110101110101 01110101010101 11111111110101 11011101110001 1101100010001 110010101110101 010101010100101 11010101110111 110111111100111 01010101110011 01101111010001 11010101110101 11011111110001 110111111011111 11011101010111 11010101110101 01010101010101 11111111110111 01101111010001 11010101110101 111101011111010 1110101110101 010111101011101 01111101110111 11000101011101 11110101111101 110101010101010 010101010110111 11001110101100111 110100111110101 111100011101001 11111101010101 11011101111101 111101100010111 11011111010001 11010111011101 11010101010101 010100111110111 110111001110111 11110111010101 01010101010101 01011111111111 11011101110101 11010101110101 110010101100101 11110101110101 11011101011101 11011101010101 1110101111101 110101010111001 11110101010101 01011111110011 1110111110101 01011101011111 01110101110001 01010101010001 11110101110101 01010101011101 11011100010101 0111010101001011 01110001110101 01011101010111 111110111011101 10110101110111 110101101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, you, i, of, his, that, s, laban, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, he, the are repeated.
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