This is an analysis of the poem The Milk Billy that begins with:

So nice it is of you to call . . .
Yes; Monday week we done it;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXaX bcbcXbXX XXdcbbXX ededXbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000101 1111110 11110111 1101010 11011111 111100 111011101 1010101101 11000111 1101010 11110101 1111010 01111111 010101 1111101 1010101101 11010101 0101110 10110111 1111010 110011101 101111 1111111 1100101101 11011101 01110110 11111111 1111010 110101110 111111 11110111 1010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; it, ' are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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

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  • summary of The Milk Billy;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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