This is an analysis of the poem Battered Bob that begins with:
HE WAS working on a station in the Western when I knew him,
And he came from Conongamo, up the old surveyors’ track,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefghgh fffXeiei jbjbckck eXedXlml ncncgfgf eoeogpgp eaeaiaia mqmqeiei eXeiejej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101000101111 111010001010101 1010101011101111 111011101010001 11100101011101010 1010100100110101 1111001110101010 101010111010101 1010111111101010 011000101110011 1010001010101010 001010101111111 1010101001111110 1001000111011101 1010101011101010 101110101010101 1110101011101010 101000100010101 1110101000100010 001000101010101 1110101010100010 101001101110101 1010111001101010 11100011111101 0010001010101010 1111101010010001 1010111000100010 111111101010101 10010101010111110 111010101010101 1100101110101110 111011101110101 11100111000100110 111010100110101 1010101110100010 101110100110101 1010111001111011 101100101110101 1110101011101110 11101111111101 1011111111111110 101010100010101 1110001010101010 1111101011101101 111110101111010 0010001001010101 1011101011100010 111011100110001 1010111010101010 101100101110101 1010111000101010 101010101110101 1110111111111110 111010101110111 11111010111000010 101011101010101 1010011110111010 01010101110111 1010101000100110 111000111010101 1010111010110001 111000101010101 1011101011111000 11110101010101 11111010010100010 111110101010101 1110101011101010 111010100010101 1110111011111010 11110101110111 0010101010100010 101010100111001 1110101100100010 101110100010101 1110101111101010 111010100110011 10010111010100010 101000101010101 110111110101110 101001101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, i, in, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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