This is an analysis of the poem The Rum Parade that begins with:
Now ye gallant Sydney boys, who have left your household joys
To march across the sea in search of glory, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdede X cfgbdgcgdXgX fhchaegh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,12,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011111111 01010101010 11101011111101 101010101010 10101011010101 110101010010 11101011110101 01010101010 10 10100010110101 101001100011 1010001011011 10101011010 10100111111101 101110101010 110111101110101 111110111010 10100011011101 111010111010 10100010110011 111010111010 11101001010101 1100001010100 11111011010111 1110101010100 11111011110101 110111010010 10111111110011 11010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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