This is an analysis of the poem Bill And Jim Fall Out that begins with:
Bill and Jim are mates no longer—they would scorn the name of mate—
Those two bushmen hate each other with a soul-consuming hate;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXaa ccdd eXaa eeff ggaa hhdd aabb ffii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101110101 111011100010101 111101101011100 101010101111111 1110111010100111 1011111111100100 111101011011101 111010101010101 101010101010001 111011101110111 111011111000101 111010100010101 111000111110111 101110101011101 111010101011101 101011100101101 11010100110111 11010101011101 101011101011011 111111100010111 11011101010111 1111010101001 101011011010111 110010101010101 11010101110101 101010101010101 11111010010101 101011101001101 111010101010111 1011001011100101 1101011111111 1111111010101 1110101010101001 111010101011111 111010100010101 101110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; they, of, he, and, it, born are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word bill at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines all is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase bill connects the lines.
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