This is an analysis of the poem When The Bush Begins To Speak that begins with:
They know us not in England yet, their pens are overbold;
We're seen in fancy pictures that are fifty years too old.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbBBB XXbbBBB ccbbBBBXaabbBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101111100 11010101110011 11110101010111 11110101010101 1010101 1010101 101110101010101 11010101010100 11110101110101 11010101100101 11010101010101 1010101 1010101 101110101010101 1101010110101 01001101010101 01010100011101 11010101010101 1010101 1010101 101110101010101 11011101110111 11110011110101 11011100110101 11010101010101 1010101 1010101 101110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, when, bush, begins, to, speak, and, find are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines speak is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word speak at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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