This is an analysis of the poem Scots Of The Riverina that begins with:
The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time --
They were Scots of the Riverina, and to run from home was a crime. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXd bbbb dXXX bbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011100100011101 10100100010101101 0111010011111 1110100101011111 01111010101001001 110110101011111 011100101011100 1010010000100111 011110100010111101 010100111011111 01011101011101 010010001110101 01110101011101 101101011110100 1011111110111101 1010010010101001001 010110010101101 1011110101011111 111011101100111 1010010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, from, in are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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