This is an analysis of the poem His Epitaph that begins with:
On a little old bush racecourse at the back of No Man’s Land,
Where the mulgas mark the furlongs and a dead log marks the stand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbdd bbaaddeedd ffeeggeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010111001010111 101010101011101 1001010101010101 111101101110111 101011111110101 1011101100010101 11001101010111 11010101110101 11010111010111 00101110110101 111001101110101 001110101110101 1010110111010111 101000101010111 1010101001010101 101010111110111 101010101010001 101010101010111 010101011011100 01010101110101 11110111110101 11111111010101 111110111110101 110111001010001 11011101111011 111110101110101 101011101010101 101010101011101 111111111110110 10111011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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, no, that, to, who, and, him, for, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, a, when are repeated.
The author used the same word some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word win at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of His Epitaph;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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