This is an analysis of Benoni Dunn by John Hay.
I sat on a worm fence talking
With one of the Bear Creek boys,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcded XfGffeXe Xhihhdcd cjXjiXfX XidieXeX dkckGfiX adedXiei
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11101110 0100111 1101010 00111001 101100100 00100111 101010101 0100101 100010101 0110100 111100101 01100111 0100101010 01001011 1011110111 0101101 1011101011 1010101 111111101 1110111 1011001001 011101 010100101 0101111 10100010 1111101 1101110 1101001 111111101 11001110 1010101101 11101010 10000110 1101101 1110111011 100101 1101101111 011111 11010111 1101001 10001010 1101111 1111110010 1111101 111100101 1111100 0111001111 011001110 101010010 010101 11010111 00100101 10011100 00110101 0100111001 1110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
he, i, you, of, his
Anaphora
the, to, i, where, with
