This is an analysis of the poem Billjim that begins with:
Down to it is Plugger Bill,
Lyin' crumpled, white 'n' still. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccb ddaeeea ccfggXf hhfcccf bbXeeef iibcccb jXbgggbXjjbjjjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101 110111 111 1010101 1010111 110101001 111 1110111 1110111 001 1010001 1011101 1111101 111 1111111 1111100 111 1010111 1010101 1011110 101 1011101 1010101 111 1110101 0010101 1010101 111 101101 1010101 100 1110101 1111101 1011101 011 1110111 1110101 101 1111101 1011111 101111 101 1100101 1011101 11 1110101 1010101 11100101 111 1111101 1111111 111 1111101 1010111 1111111 001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; 'n' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hard is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word jim at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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