This is an analysis of the poem Saltbush Bill that begins with:
Now is the law of the Overland that all in the West obey --
A man must cover with travelling sheep a six-mile stage a day; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddbbeeffbbgXbbffhXggddgXbbhhii jjiibXkkeeXbbiihhddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001001011100101 0111001001011101 10001101011100101 110111010111110100 11111001011100101 111011011110100101 0101101011100101 101011010110100101 10001001111100111 01110010011100111 101010011110110101 111111011111100111 10101001010110101 10101101011100101 10101111011100101 1010110111111001001 10001001001100101 10111101010100101 1101101011100101 111011011100100110 111111001011110101 11110101001100101 111010010100111101 1010110101001101001 111111010110100101 11100110100111010011100 11101111010101101 11101001000010101 11011010110100101 01001011100100111 1101101011100111 111111010100101100 1111101001110111 001001100100100101 011011011110110111 10100001111110101 00101101011011101 110011011100100111 101111010110100101 101011010100110101 111011111111100101 10101101101100101 111010011110100101 11101110101101001000 0111001011100111 10111001011110111 10110001011100101 10101111111100101 10111001111100101 0010011111100100101 101110010100100101 10101101011100111 101001101010110111 10111111011100101 01010110100110101 11001101110110111 1101101010100101 101111110010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1487
- Average number of words per stanza: 289
- Amount of lines: 58
- 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; they, to, camp, of, and, mile, he, that, in, his, for, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, for, he, till are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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