This is an analysis of the poem Barb-Wire Bill that begins with:
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim,
When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've got to do it, Jim....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccdX bbbbeedd ccffbbaabb ccgghhiieX hhaaeeee jjcXbbee hhkk eehhjjhh aaggbbjjccccXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,10,8,8,4,8,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010111110111 11111011010101 1101111110101 110101011111010 11111101010101 110100101110101 111101011011101 0101110011101110 011111101001101 1101001010100011101 11110101110001 11110111010101 01000100011101 11011101110101 01111111110101 1100010010100 11100101110101 110101111110111 01011101010111 11111111110011 010111011111001 111101011111001 010101100111001 010111011100101 11010101110001 11111111110111 11001011101110111 01011101111111 10111101101101 11010101110111 11111111011101 11110101010101 10011111111101 11010101110101 11110101110101 1101010111010100 01111101011111 01111111111001 11111111110101 11111101011101 11011101011101 11011001010101 11110101110101 11111111110101 01110101111111 11011101111101 11110101111101 1011101111101110 11111111111101 11111111110101 11010111111111 11010101110101 11110101110101 110111011100101 011101011111111 11111111100101 01010101111101 01010101110101 01010101110101 11100101110101 11100101110111 11010101111101 11110101111101 01010100111101 11110101110111 11011101110101 11011101010001 11011101110101 11110101111101 11110101111101 10011101010101 11010101111111 11111101110111 11010101111101 11110101110111 10011100110101 111100011111110 111111111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; to, of, his, and, we, i, him, saw, there, silence are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and, i are repeated.
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