This is an analysis of the poem A Death In The Bush that begins with:

The hut was built of bark and shrunken slabs,
That wore the marks of many rains, and showed... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaea cfgc hhhchi cbXdXcj afkbbl ijadaae XdcgXlX abhibbgc dmacahh ceanobp ckagghcbXj hmdfkajclag cXhhgac qmhlcjg XacabbmlXbcbljaXhcc pmaqrckdcg lbbhaccj ckaccb bbbabhlbocdaX habaaaecifc bhcp baXajlXkjghla admXag ddccjfjn aabcldba rXjllha bkakX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,6,7,6,7,7,8,7,7,10,11,7,7,19,10,8,6,13,11,4,13,6,8,8,7,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111011101 1101010111 1101111101 0101010001 01010101010 1111010101 01001000101 11010100111 1101110101 1111010100 11011010101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 01001110111 01010111 11 0101110111 01010101110 1101010001 0101010100 110011100111 11010101001 1001011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110111 0101110101 1101110101 1101110101 1101100101 11001010100 0101011101 1111010111 01010010001 11010000101 1101011100 0111000101 0101010101 1111010101 1101011101 0101111101 010001111 0111110111 1101000101 1101110001 110011101011 1100011001 0101110101 1100010001 1101010001 0101010101 1101011001 11110101010 0110010001 1101010101 1101110111 1100010101 11010111001 1101010101 1111110101 1111000101 0101000100 1101000001 1111010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010001 0100110111 0111010101 0101010101 1101010111 1101111111 0111010101 0101000101 1101000101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111110101 1111011111 0101000101 1101010101 0101010001 1101000111 1111010101 1111110101 0101010101 01001010101 1111010101 1111010101 0111010001 1101010101 0111100101 0111010111 01001011101 11001010111 1101010101 010111001 10 0111110101 11010101001 1011111101 0111011101 1111010101 1101111001 1011010001 0101000101 1101010111 0111010001 1101011111 1101011101 0101111101 1001010101 1111111111 1101011111 1101001111 1001010101 1101011101 01001010101 1101110101 0101010101 110010101001 11010101001 0111011101 1100010111 0111011101 01001010100 1101110101 1101010101 0111010101 0101011001 1011000101 0101111111 0101010101 0101010001 1001110001 0111011101 0101110101 01110010101 10101010101 01 11011101 0101010101 1101010101 1111111111 1111111111 1111110101 1101111101 1111011101 0101000100 0011010111 0111111101 1101011111 1101110101 1101010101 11011101001 1011010111 1101010101 1111000101 1101011101 1101010101 1001110101 1101010111 1001011111 1101000101 1101110111 0101010101 1101010101 1101000111 01110011001 1111010101 1111110111 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 1101000101 1101010101 0101101101 1111100101 1101010101 1101000101 0101110101 1101000101 0101010111 0101110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1110010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110001 0101010101 1101110011 1101110101 1111010101 1101000101 1101110101 01010010101 11001010111 0101011101 1101010111 0100110101 0101010100 1111010101 1101000101 01010001001 1101010101 01010101001 0101010111 1101011101 1111111101 0001110101 1111000101 010101101 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 219
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, fifty, for, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, the, a, of are repeated.

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

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