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

[for Alix Walcott]
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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cXd efg fgh Xhi hje bhX kfX XXh XeX hhh eee X lel hie iXm fmb bib iXn aXa Xak X fXei emg jhX hhf hfh cig gii mfm fjj jjj ejh jnn X eie ief bfb lfl flX ada aba bno nob jbj Xjj b XXj fji jiX jhh hXe hee php hka XjX pXn Xnh hhh b iig igh hXh hne nhn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 1 0101000101101 1011010110100 101001010110 10110010100 0111001010010 111011101011 110011100010 01111010011 10010110110 001001100100 10010111110 11000010110110 11110110010 110001011001 00110101001001 010110100011 10110011111101 00100111001101 0101011110101 001110110100 01110100110 10111010100 00001110110 0010110101010 1110010001010 01101001010010 11111111110 100101011101 101111110110 1010011110101 010110101111 111111110101 101110011110 1 110100101011 10101111010101 101011110101 0100010011100110 11011001001110 10111011110010 110111001010 11010111101000 10110110110101 010101001111010 0010101111101 001010110111011 10101011101101 101100101010 1111111010100101 001011010010110 010100010100 110110110101110 111110101101 00100101101011 1010011011001011 11111011101 1000110010100 0100101111101 1 10 001011011010 0010110110101 010111011101010 1011110010001 1101001001011 1110110010011 01010110100100101 01010010101011 1000101111101 110011010011 010100101101 011100011010 00110101011 10011111001010 01110100101 0010100100101 100010100010110 101010100111 00110000110101 1100100101010 010110001011010 001000100010011 1010011101010 00010001001101 01110011011110 11001001101001 001001001001011 1010100101011 00010101101011 0110100101011 0100100110111 1001100100111 1011100110010 100110101010101 001001110111 110111000101101 1 1111111101110 10110011010110 11011111111 01101110101010 1010101010100010 01011111011010 1111011001011 11001001111010 0010110110101 01110011011001 1001011010110010 1011010010101 1101100011010 0110100111101 1110001100011 1001001100101 1010010001001010 1100101011111 1010100101100 1001101011111 001011010100100 010001000100101 01101100101011 100100101010101011 1010010100101010 01000101101011 110100100111101 011011110111010 111010110111 01100110001111 001011000111100 100000100110010 1101100101001 1 10111000010010 01001100010101 1111001010011 110010111110 1101110100010 0110111010010 010011110010 11001000100110 00101011100010 11101110010010 110100110011 11010100010 101000100000111010 100100101110100 100110100100 110110111001 1100110111101 0100101110101 111101001011010 101111011111 010001111111010 110111100100101 11010111101111 1110110111110 11101110101011 110101110010 1010010000111 100010001010 0110010010110 111010110010 0010111010010 10100101011101011 1111001010100010 1101011011 111100100101010 1111010110011 1 010101001111010 1111011110010 1110101101001 0110110111110 0101100101101 01011101010111 0010100111011 0001010111110 11001001101001 101010110001110 0110101110110 0110010111011 01110011011 1110111010 0101101011111 11100100111001 10010110101001 10111010011001 110110101101010 1101100110101 1110110010111 00110100101011 11001010000011010 11101111001 011011001111 11011010110010 11111110010100 111100010011100 00100110011010 101111101010 1 001100111000100 1001011010111 101100111001 001011011110 0110100101010 01010101101010 10011101010 1010111011010 1101001011011 100111101010010 10010111010110 1110110110010 01001010101001 001001011011 11010110001101 101111100011010 111001001011100 110110001101001 111101101001 11111111111010 1011101001101 1101100101111 010011010101 11101001001001 010101111001 1111110111001 001011001000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 80
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 234
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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; of, his, in, for, me, her, can, like, we, their, that, and, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, i, of, the, their, as are repeated.

    The author used the same words in, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, heard are repeated).

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

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  • summary of The Bounty;
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