This is an analysis of the poem King Billy Chips In that begins with:

Boss Oberseer, Dat BULLUMTIN! Goo' day, boss Plurry 'ot!
Bloke tell me writum BULLUMTIN, bin plenty bacca got.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX Xbcc ddbb eeaa ffee ffXb gXee ggXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001100111101 11110100110101 11010101011101 11111101010101 1110100110111 11010101001101 11110100100111 11010101010111 11010100110111 1101101010111 11001101011101 11010100111001 11111111110111 11111100110101 11111100111101 110111011100011 11011101010101 11110111110101 11110101110111 11011101011001 11110111111001 11110101110101 11011100111101 11111101111101 11111110111101 1111100110100 11110101111101 11011111010111 1110100110111 11010111110111 11100101111101 11010111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; plenty, mine, it, tink, dat, bin, dey, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mine is repeated.

    The author used the same word mine at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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