This is an analysis of the poem Bannerman Of The Dandenong that begins with:
I rode through the Bush in the burning noon,
Over the hills to my bride, -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXb ddcXd Xebbe fghhg dbffb XXbbX aecXe dieei bgffg jbjjb daaaa adcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110100101 1001011 011110111 110000100 1101111 011111001 10101001 10100111 110000100 10111101 1011001010 1011111 101101001 11000101 111101 110110101 1111001 111111111 110011101 1111101 101101011 1010101 11110101 10011101 1011101 110010101110 1010111 11001101011 0010100101 10110110 11101101 110111 110101101 00110100 1100101 011110101 1010101 01111111 110100001 1111011 101111010011 100101 010110101 010110101 1011101 111100011 1011011 1101001001 1010101101 1011101 1111001 1111101 111100111 111110101 11111101 110111001 11101001 1110101101 110000100 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; red, and, he, ride are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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