This is an analysis of the poem Son Of A Scoundrel that begins with:

Big Barney Fitch, he got soddenly rich
He got a big fancy house in Melbourne ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba bcac addee eefe eXgg a ebab fXgXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,1,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111001 1101101010 01001111101 10110111 110010110010 110110110 11111001011 111110110 01 111001111101 011011011011 011001011110 101001001011 101101101 111111011 101011010011 111111011 111111001001 1010110010 1110111111011 1011011010 01 1001101001 11110110 01011001001 1101010 101101101111 01101100 01111101001 110110010 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; big, of, they are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Son Of A Scoundrel;
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  • history of its creation;
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