This is an analysis of the poem The Private Despatch Of Captain Bumble Of The 40th Stationed At Ballarat To His Excellency Sir Charles Hotham that begins with:

He writes thus to His Excellency;
Myself and Major Stiggings ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXabcX XdedfcXc Xgag XbfbeaXac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100110 1111010 11110101 1101010 11111101 00111010 110010101 11001010 11011111 1110010 101001010 10101010 101010011 0111010 10101010 01100010 1100010 1011011 11111010 01010011 11111111 1101010 1110010101 0101110 11010101 1111010 111010101 011110 11111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • 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; we is repeated.

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