This is an analysis of Flames by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
It's human nature for a bashful bloke
To bottle up, an' hesitate, an' doubt…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cdcdef ghghgg gbgbef ididXb hghgbb dadXgg hhhhjj bjbjXb ggXXcc kbkbcc bgbgaa hXhggg cbXbkk abaXbX XhXXbb chchXc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 0101010101 0101110111 1101111111 1001011101 0101110101 1101111011 0111011111 1111010101 1101010111 1111110101 1111010101 1001110110 0101011011 1011111101 11111111011 0111010101 0111000111 0111010101 01010110101 1001011111 1111110101 1101110001 1101010101 1111111110 111110111 1101110101 1111010101 1001010111 1011110011 1101010101 111111101 1111011101 1101111101 0100111111 1111111111 1001010111 1101111111 1101010101 0111111111 1101101111 1110111101 1101110111 1111110111 0001011111 0111010111 1101010111 110110101 1101011101 1101010111 1111110101 1111010101 0101100101 11010110111 1111011111 1111011111 1001111101 1101111111 1101111111 1111011110 0101110101 1111111101 0110111101 1111110111 1101011101 1111110101 11011111101 1111010101 11010101011 1101111101 1101011111 1100010111 1101011001 1101110001 1101011111 1111111101 1101111101 1101111111 1111111101 1101111111 1101110111 1111011111 1011110111 1111110011 11110111101 1111010001 1101111100 0111111101 1111110101 1110011111 1011010101 1111111101 1101111101 0111011101 1101110101 1111100111 1101111110 1101110111 1111110011 1111111111 1101011101 1101111100 1111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 102
Repeated words/phrases
by, an', i, my, her, ', she, no, seen
Anaphora
an', i, she
Epiphora
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