This is an analysis of the poem Bill that begins with:
His age on the ship's books is fifty-four:
It's stood at that this twenty years or more....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd eXXe bX ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,4,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0110110101 0111010011 1111011101 00111111111 101001100110 10010101010 1101010111 10111111101 1100110111 110100 1010 1 1101111011 101011101111 11110101101 1011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
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- summary of Bill;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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