This is an analysis of the poem Bullocky Bill that begins with:
FROM a river siding, the railway town,
Or the dull new port there three days down,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcC ddeecC ffggcc hhhhcC iijjcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010100111 101111111 101110111 00100100101 110100111 100110111 100110111 11100101 101101111 101101111 10010101 100110111 1001101101 100110111 0100110101 1010100101 11011101 100100111 100110111 10110101 00101110101 1010011101 111111111 100110111 101110101 110111101 101110101 11010101 10100111 100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word team at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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