This is an analysis of the poem Saltbush Bill's Second Flight that begins with:
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large,
That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with Saltbush Bill in charge, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccddeeff gghhiXjjiihX bbeeccfX kkeeiijjiiXXkXllfX bbggii cciXcc cchhbX jjmmiXXfhhiiXX jjffXkii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,8,18,6,6,6,14,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101001100111 110101001010101 0101001110100100 10101111011110101 10110101010100101 1010011110110101111 11101101111100101 111001001011111101 110110101110101 01101111111110111 10001001010100111 1011110101010100101 11011011111111001 111011001111100101 10111001010100101 011011010110100111 101111010010111101 1101101010110110110 10101001011111111111 1011010111111111101 1111011010100111 010010010111101001 111010111110101 01101010101101110 100111101010110101 101001011011110111 11010010111100101 111001001001110101 1101011011101011 11101101011100101 00111011111101101 1100011010001111010 1010101010110110101 1111001111110110 11101001011110111 111110011111001001 110101111111101001 0011111011100101 110111011011111101 11111101011111101 011110010011111111 1110011011111100111 1101111011101111 101001001111111101 101010010011111101 1011101101101001011 10111001001011101111 10111011010101101 1101101111111111 11001111101001010 11011010010101101 10111101111111101 11101001111100101 1110111111011011 11101101111101111 1010111111011101 11111111011100111 10101111011010101 10101110110100101 101110011111011010 1111101011110101 111111010111111101 1101101011101001 1111101011110111 10111101110111101 111111110111110101 10100111110101101 1101111110100100 110111011100101 11001001001110101 1100001011100111 11110010111100101 101110010111000101 1111001011011100 11101101110111110 111100101010111 111011110111101101 1010111110110111 1111001011110111 1110011111110101111 10110111011110101 11110010111101100 101011010011100101 10101001011100111 10101001011110101 10101101011100101 1011101011101111 101010010110100111 0101111011101101 1111111011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 871
- Average number of words per stanza: 165
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 76 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, to, all, of, as, for, in, they, it's, your, route, his, man, him, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word bill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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