This is an analysis of the poem Clancy Of The Overflow that begins with:
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcXdX eafa bgcg eheh hdfd Xded eahX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101011111010 101011111010001 1110111111101001 111011101000100 1110101000101010 111011100011101 1010111010101010 1010111011111110 0110101010101010 101010101010101 1011101010101010 101011101011101 1011101111101011 001000101010101 1110101000111010 111010100010101 1110011010101010 101110101010101 1010111000101010 101010101010101 1010101011101010 001010101010101 1010101000101010 11001101010101 10100101111101011 111010100111101 0110111011101110 11111101111101 1111101011101010 101011101010111 1110101000111010 111110101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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, him, and, of, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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