This is an analysis of the poem Benjamin Bandicoot that begins with:
If you walk in the bush at night,
In the wonderful silence deep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaa cdcdee fgfgaa ahahaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100111 00100101 10100101 1011101 11101011011 101100101 00111111 0111111 1110101 010101 110101111 110101101 1001101 1100101 0100111 1101101 111111101 1101100101 00100101 0101001 1101101 1100101 0010100101 00100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bandicoot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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