This is an analysis of the poem The Woes Of Bill that begins with:
Once upon a recent even, as I lay in fitful slumber,
Weaving dreams and seeing visions vague and utterly absurd,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX acac defX bbcb agXX XhhX XbXb XbXb didi ahXh jkXk XXal adad geXX jmcm fdXd cldX bibX lgXX lcXcfhch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101011101010 101110101110001 1001101011111010 111111101001101 1010011110001010 101000100110100 1111001000101110 101110101100101 1001111010101010 101110101110111 1110111010101110 11101100010110 1110101011101110 1001110101011101 1011111011001010 101111101010101 1110001110101010 101011101010101 1111111111101100 11101110001111 1011101011101110 111111111111001 11111011111110100 1110101000101010 1110110011111010 101110101011101 1010101010111000 101010101111111 1110110011101110 111010101010111 1110111011111110 111111101011111 1010001010101010 101010101011001 1111101011100010 111010101011111 1111111011111010 101111101010111 1111111011101110 111010101000101 1111101010111010 111010101010101 1011101010101110 10111101010101 1110001011111010 001110101011100 1110101011101010 10101010111101 10101111011111010 111010101111101 1111101011110110 111011101010101 1011111011101010 101110101111111 01101110101 10111010011101010 1110101011101010 111010101110111 1110001010111010 101011101110101 11110101010101010 101010101010101 1010010011101100 111100101010111 1111111011111010 111000101010101 1110101010100010 111011101110111 1111101011101110 100111101000111 0110101011101110 101110101110101 1111101010101011 101010101110101 1110101011111010 111110100010101 1111001010101011 101111101010101 1110101010001010 101010101111101 1110111011111010 111010101110101 1001101111110110 001001101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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, i, yer, ', no, an', they, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, an' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase land connects the lines.
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