This is an analysis of the poem Billy Vickers that begins with:
No song is this of leaf and bird,
And gracious waters flowing; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcd aeae fbfb cfcf ghgh ijij hfhf XkXk Xjjj clcl Xfcf amamnXnjXehe gkgk fefe abab cici abab oioi gege hehe pipi qeqeXbibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11000111 1101010 01111111 110101000 11010101 0101010 01000101 0101010 01010101 0111010 11010111 0001010 11110101 1101010 11010101 110011010 11011101 1101010 01000101 1111110 10011101 0101010 11110101 0101010 11000111 0101110 01010101 1101010 01000111 0011010 1101100111 1100010 1111110010 110110010 11011101 0110010 0101110100 0101110 01000100 0101010 11010111 110111001 11010111 1101011 11110110 1111010 01010100 1101010 01010011 01001010 11011001 1101010 11010111 010101 01010001 0101010 1111001100 1111010 11000101 0101010 01010001 0100010 11110101 0101010 01001101 1111010 11010101 1101010 11011101 0101010 11011101 1111010 01010101 1101010 11010101 0111010 01010101 0101010 11010111 10101010 01110101 0101010 01110001 1111010 11010101 1101010 11110101 1011110 01000101 1100010 11000101 0101010 11011111 0111110 110111011 0001010 10011101 0101110 11010001 0101110 11011101 1111010 11111101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, in, for, of, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same words of, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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