This is an analysis of the poem Bottle 'O' that begins with:

I ain't the kind of bloke as takes to any steady job;
I drives me bottle cart around the town; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XXdeeX fgfgXdXXggggXdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010111010101 1111010101 01111101111101 11010111001 11010101010101 1111010011 11011111110111 11100010101 10 10101001010101010 11111110111 11101010 01001110 1111101001010 01011101110101 0111111111 11110101110111 1101110101 10111010011101010100 10101001110101 11110111110101 011011101010 10110101110111 1101010101 11010111010101 10100010001 1101110111010100 1111110101 1111111111010100 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, there's, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Bottle 'O';
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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