This is an analysis of the poem The Ride Of Rody Burke that begins with:
The heat haze veiled the distant hills, the white clouds floated high,
Drifting in slow content across the blue Australian sky;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb aacX ddee eecc ffaa aaee XXgg ffcX hhff ffgg cXii ddhh aacX bbjjXffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110101011101 10011001010101 11010101011101 101110101011101 101111101010101 110111001010111 10010101010101 11010101010101 11010101110101 010101011111001 11110100010111 11010101011100 010101011010111 01011101111111 11010101010001 11010111010101 11010101110101 11010100110111 11010101111001 11010101010101 11111101110101 011111001111011 01010101110101 11110111110111 11111111110101 11010100110111 11111100010101 01011100010101 10010111110110 110101001110111 11010101111101 01110101010101 11010111110101 11010111010001 11110101110101 11010101011100 11010101010101 11011001010101 110010101110001 11010101010001 11010111110101 10010111011101 11010111011101 11001101110111 11010101010101 10011101110100 11010101110101 11010101110111 11010101010101 11001100100101 11110101110111 110101010110101 11011101110101 01110111110111 110100101110101 110100101111100 0101111101101001 01000101110101 1101011110101 10011101011101 11010111010101 10010101110111 10110111110111 01011101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, in, s, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are 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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