This is an analysis of the poem Bill Brewster that begins with:

In Burke's Saloon, among the crowd,
I heard Bill Brewster boasting loud,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddaaeeffggddXX eehhiiaajjkk jjlleeddiiffmmlleeiiaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,12,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 11110101 1011101 01011101 11011101 01011111 11111011 01111111 1010101 11010101 11010001 01010101 11110101 01010011 10010111 11010111 11010111 1111101 1111101 11110101 111111010 110101010 111100001 01110010 110101010 011111010 01110011 11011101 111100101 111101111 11011101 11111111 11001001 11010101 1111111 110100101 11011101 11011101 01110101 01111101 11011101 11110011 01011111 01010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11110111 11010101 11110111 101001001 11101101 11111101 11111101 01010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 677
  • Average number of words per stanza: 129
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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