This is an analysis of the poem The Old Bark Hut that begins with:
Oh, my name is Bob the Swagman, before you all I stand,
And I've had many ups and downs while travelling through the land.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc CcddcC CCeebC CCffcC CCggcc CcccbC CChhcC CCcccCCCaacCCCffbC eCcccC CCaabCXCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,6,6,6,6,18,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101010011111 111101111100101 11110111111111 1010111001111 0111101111 010111001111 110101101110111 111100101010101 011010101100101 11100101001111 0111101111 11100101001111 010111101010101 111110101011111 101010111010101 1110101000111 0111101111 1110101000111 101001101110111 10111110111101 11011101111011 0110101000111 0111101111 0110101000111 101001111110001 01011101111111 01110111111101 1011101010111 0111101111 1011101010111 01110101011111 11010101111101 111011101110011 11101010101111 0111101111 11101010101111 0010110101010111 1110101010011001 11101110111101 1110101000111 0111101111 1110101000111 001010111010101 010010101110111 01110101110101 1010111001111 0111101111 1010111001111 11011001110011 010011111110101 1101111111111 1010101100111 0111101111 1010101100111 1010101111111111 11111101011101 111010101010111 111101000111 0111101111 111101000111 111011101111111 10110111111101 111111011010101 110101100111 0111101111 110101100111 111111111111111 11101001111101 11110100011111 010101010111 0111101111 010101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (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; i, and, in, old, bark, hut, it, of, there's, as, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hut is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hut at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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