This is an analysis of the poem Bill The Bomber that begins with:
The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-woolly mist;
The Captain kept a-lookin' at the watch upon his wrist;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbccddddeefffX bbgghheX iihhaaddiX aXdXeedXff aaaaaadXXh ffiihhbbXb XjjjkkiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,8,10,10,10,10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101110101 01010101010101 11111101110101 11000101110101 11010101110101 11010101010101 111110101110101 001010100010101 111010100110011 10111001010111101 11100100110101 101111101010101 101010101110101 101110101010101 111110101010101 111010111110101 11000001110101 101110101010110 111010101100101 01011101111010100 101110101110111 111111100010111 11111110111001001 11111111110111 11011101110101 10010101011101 101011111010101 11111110111101010 111010111111111 1110100101110111 111111101111101 1111111011111001011 101001101010101 111110101111101 111011101110101 111011101110101 11010101110101 1111111111101010 11111101110111 1101100011111 11001101010111 1011111111111110 11011111110101 01110101010101 11111101010111 111111001010111 11111111110101 00110101110001 1111011110011 11011101010111 110101100110011 110101011101111 111010111111111 111010111110101 111000101111101 1101100111011111 11111101010111 01010101111001 101110101110111 111010101010101 101011101111111 111011101111011 11110101110111 11110101111101 11110101111101 11111111011101 1111011010101010 111000001100010101 111011100110111 11110101111011 1111101111101 111101111111101 11000110011001 11010101111101 101000101011001 11111010111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; i, and, they, me, like, of, tat, goes, it, their, down, i'm are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, 'twas, and, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out is repeated).
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