This is an analysis of the poem King Billy's Skull. that begins with:
THE scene is the Southern Hemisphere;
The time — oh, any time of the year... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXcffggaahheeaaeecciiXXaabbbbfXfffjjbbbbeekkXXllddmmhhhhdXddeebbkkaaffkkddnneehXccXfiXkkGDeXeefXbbeekXkkeeccccXffhhllllffhXkXGDoolliXiiccddbbeeeekkfXggllhhXccXGDXfppcccbbaXkkeXllppeeeaaggggdddddkXaXabbeeellkkXkkggbbcXcffccqnnffbbHhcQXddeeHhlXkkcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 308,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010010101 011101001 0111101011 10111101001 1110111011 100110001 11010101 111100101 1011110101 0010010101 011110111 110101001 0010100111 01001001001 010101001 1011101101 1011111001 11101100001 1010010011011 100101011 1100100011 1100101001 010111101 1101110101 111110101 111101101 111110110 111000101 10110111 1010100 011101010 10011111 101101111 11111101 010111101 0100111001 0111101011 10101011001 10101001111 10111111000 1011110101 10111010001 1010100111 11101001 011101101 111100101 110101001 11011001001 10101011001 110111101 1010010000 010100101 101110101 010011110010 1111001010 1110110101 101010001 110101101 00111101101 1101100010 11001001110 101111011 0111010111 0111011011 01110101111 10110101 00100110100 10101000101 100100111 1110101001 01001001001 11100101 0101100101 01001011011 100100101 10010010011 00100100101 11001011001 11010101101 11110110101 1101100101 11001001001 111110111 110110101 00101001001 111100111 111100111 11111001001 11011111111 11100100101 1101001101 10111101110 101011101111 10111101 011001011010 11111101001 101001011001 001100101 0100111001 11111111010 111101001 1001100101 1111001011 111111101 11111001010 01011001011 0100101001 1101101101 11011110 11010111 10011111 0110111011 11001001011 10010101 011101101 011011111 001001011010 110100101 01001101001 101101110 111111011 11100111 110111011 11110100 10010101 00100100101 1010110101 100100101 10111011001 10100100100 11001001001 11001011110 100110101 0010101111 001100101 0100111001 101101011001 00110110101 1010101001 1100111101 1100101101 110111101 011101111 001100101 101110110011 01100111011 1011001001 110110101 110010001 11110101 111010101 001000001 010010101 1011010101 11010111 110101001 11100100101 0110010100 111010101 1101001001 0110101001 10101101001 1111111 0100100101 110011111 11001001001 10101101 101110 001100101 0100111001 11111110 1111111 11101101 11011111 111111101 11111111 101010001 111111101 111101101 1101111111 11111111 110111101 1110110111 11010101 0011111110100 11011101001 01001001001 1110101011 010010010001 1100011110010 010110101010 10111100011010 11001001111 111101001001 110101111 110101001 0110000101 010110101 1101010111 1111100111 110100101 100100101 1111001001 1010010101 00100101101 11110110111 11010110110 110101111 10100001 1110101001 11100101 1100111111 111101101 01101001101 111101101 0110101111 0110111101 100110100 11011111 001011101 010010100 110100101 01010111 010111101 110110101 1001011011 11100110101 111101101 00110100101 11110110 110101111 0010010100 111111111 10011101 001110101 01011101 1010001010 01101001010 1001001001 0101010011 1001011001 100110100 010110011 01001110001 01011001011 1100100101 010010101 1001001001 110010101 0010101101 010100100 10010101 1011001001 11011011011 011110101 1111001110 1110101010 111001011 10111101 11111101 010100101 110110100 11110101 0011010101 0111000101 11101100 111101111 1110101101 111111101 111111111 1110000110 110100111 10101001000 10100110111 0100111011 1100111001 0110100110 01101101101 01000100 11011111 101010101 110101001 10101100101 10010100 1100101101 0110111101 101100101 111101101 11110101101 1110100101 111101101 111101001 1111101010 1111001001 011110111 111100101 011110111 1011110001 1111111111 111011101 110101111 11100111111 10101101001 1010101000 10011101 1001101011 100110100 010110011 00100101111 1011010101 101010101001 100110000 110111001 100100111 110101101 11001001001 1010001001 00101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 12626
- Average number of words per stanza: 2326
- Amount of lines: 319
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, in, or, to, i, my, his, up, 'im, by, he, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, and, i, a, by are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, by are repeated).
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