This is an analysis of the poem Holy Dan that begins with:
It was in the Queensland drought;
And over hill and dell,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXbabXcXc debeXfaf gadaXdgd hAHX XfhfhAHX bhhhedgX hfaXchhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,4,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111 110111 11010101 111111 01010111 010101 11011111 110101 11010101 010101 01010100 111101 10010111 110101 0101110 111101 01001101 011101 10110111 011101 1110110 111101 10111101 110001 11111111 110101 11010101 110101 101011101 110101 10011111 1101010 01111101 0101001 11110101 010101 100011101 110101 10011111 1101010 11110101 110101 11110111 110101 11110101 011101 11010101 1100111 101111101 111101 11010101 1110010 01010111 110101 01010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, still are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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