This is an analysis of the poem Bourke that begins with:
I’ve followed all my tracks and ways,from old bark school to Leicester Square,
I’ve been right back to boyhood’s days, and found no light or... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ccbb ddbb eebb fXbb ggbb hhbb iibb jjbb jjbb iibbffbbXccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111101110101 1011010111111101 110011100111010111 1111111101010111 1111110101110101 0101010111010101 1101010101010111 1111010001011101 1111010001111101 0101110111010101 1101010111011101 0111110101011101 1111011111011111 1101010111111101 0101011110010111 1101110101011101 0101010111010101 1101110011111011 1111010111111111 1101010001011101 0101011111001111 1111011111011101 11010100011011111 1111111101011101 1101110111111011 1111111111010111 0101000111010101 1111010101010101 1111111111011101 1101011111011101 11010111011010101 1111010101011101 1101110111111111 0101010111010101 0111011101010101 1101010111011101 1101000101011011 0100011101110101 1101010111000111 0101001101011101 1100010110011101 1111010101000101 1101010101010101 1101110101011101 1111111111011101 1111011111010101 11110101010100001 0111011101011101 1101010111110111 0101010101010101 1101010111110111 1101110101011101 1111010111011101 1001111111010101 01101110111110111 1111010101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, to, ninety, in, that, they, of, their, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, the, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word two at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Bourke;
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