This is an analysis of the poem The Way I Treated Father [a Bush Song] that begins with:

I WORKED with father in the bush
At splitting rails and palings.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcbC dXdXbebe fcfcdede gdgddeXe bcbCaeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010001 1101110 11010101 1111010 11010111 1111110 01011101 0111010 01011001 1111110 01000101 1101010 11111101 1011110 11010111 1111010 11110101 1111010 11110110 0101010 11110101 1111110 01110101 1111010 1110101 1111110 11111101 1101111 11111101 1101010 01011101 1111010 01010111 1111010 11111101 0111010 11010101 11111010 01110111 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, though, i are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word billy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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