This is an analysis of the poem Mallee Wife that begins with:
Home's best (she said), and the tale
Of the hungering soil and the flail... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd bbeeffgg ffhhggii ffjjaakk bbXXcccc lliikkaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 001001101 001101001 0011111 01101011 11011001 00111001 1011011 111101001 00101111 0100111 101001101 0101101 1101101 110111 10100101 1111111 01001001 0010101 1111101 01101011 01001001 01101001 1100101 1111001 10101111 1101101 10111001 101111 10111001 11001001 100111 1111101 10100111 101111 1001001 101111 00100111 101101 0111001 1111111 1101011 1100111 0101100 111101 00101001 1011010010010 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word home's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase despair connects the lines.
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