This is an analysis of the poem Bottle-O Benny that begins with:

Chuff! Chuff! Chuff! With a rumble and a rattle,
Waking every echo on the old bush road;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefedXd ghgheXXd abaXcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101010 101001010111 101010001110 0010001010111 0011010101110 101010110101 010101010101010 110110001101 10110111101 111011011 101011110101 101010011011 11111001111 110101111 011011111011 110110001101 1101010111010101 11000101111001 1110101111101 1111101110101 1110101011011101 1011101 1111010111111101 11100010001101 11100101010 111010111 010111011101010 111010111101 111111111010 110111110111 1101010111110 11000010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; chuff, his, sir, ole, he are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word t at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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