This is an analysis of the poem Rum And Water that begins with:
Stifling was the air, and heavy; blowflies buzzed and held a levee,
And the mid-day sun shone hot upon the plains of Bungaroo,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcXc adedaXef XXbXagfg hcgcaXeX iehejXXX efXfehkX aiXifkgk XkakbjeX XXXXaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111010111010 101111101010100 1010101000111010 101010101010010 1110001010100010 011010101010101 1010101010100110 110010101010101 1010101010101110 101011000010001 1010011010101010 1010100101110101 0110111010101010 101010101010110 1010101010101010 001011101010101 011010101011100100 101000100010010 1110101011101110 111010011010100 1010101010101010 10101010000111010 10101110101000010 0111101011000010 1010111000101010 001001101010111 0010101011100010 110010000010011 100100110010101010 1011011100010101 1010101000110010 11111010101010110 10110010010100010 1011010101110111 11101010111001010 011001100110001 1010101011101110 111010101110101 10010101010110010 11101010111010100 10111010110111010 111000101110011 1110101010111000 111000011010101 1010111010111010 101000101011011 1010111010111110 1110111011101010 1010101010101110 101111101010101 1010101000111000 101010101010001 10110011010101010 111111101111111 1110101010111010 011010101110101 10110001000111010 101010001110111 1110101001111110 111111100110101 1001001010001010 10101010101111 1010111011101010 111011111100010 1110110010100010 11100101011110010 11100101111101011 1110101011111010 1011111010101110 101011101010100 1010101000101010 101010101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, for, you, your, it, that, in, him, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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