This is an analysis of the poem That Beating Of The Bush that begins with:
I'm not into,
The beating of the bush....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB B AB B Xcd cdefgXecX AB B AB B fhidhXgeh fjij AB B AB B AB B ABXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,2,1,3,9,2,1,2,1,9,4,2,1,2,1,2,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100 010001 110001 0100 010001 110001 1101011011 11101010 1010011001 111010100101 1010001001 110100111 001001010001010 011010010110101 10010 111010 100101 110101 0100 010001 110001 0100 010001 110001 11001110 010001 110101 11101110 101001111 0010000100 011010 00100010 1001 111010101 10101 010001101111 110 0100 010001 110001 0100 010001 110001 0100 010001 110001 0100 010001 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, beating, of, bush are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word those is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bush is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bush at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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