This is an analysis of the poem Frank Gardiner that begins with:
Oh Frank Gardiner is caught at last and lies in Sydney jail,
For wounding Sergeant Middleton and robbing the Mudgee mail....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcc bbcc bbXX ddcc ccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100111110101 11010100110011 110000101010110 101111111111101 01010101010101 11011101110101 110111001010101 0111110101101 1111010111011 1111010110011 111011101110101 11011100110001 11010111110111 01001011011001 1101010110001 111101111111101 110110101010001 1101011010111 1100110010111 1101010110111 11110101010101 10111001110001 11011100110101 111111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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, for, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, and are repeated.
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- summary of Frank Gardiner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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