This is an analysis of the poem On The Road To Gundagai that begins with:
Oh, we started down from Roto when the sheds had all cut out.
We'd whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXXX ccdX eedX eedX bbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101011111 11110111110101 111110100111101 00111011110101 10 111110101010100 01010011100100 111110101010100 11101001010001 11111000110101 111011101110011 111110101010100 111010111110101 111010111111101 111011111110111 111110101010100 111110111110001 111111101010101 10111010111111 1111101011100100 001011101011111 11101100001111111 10111010111011010 1110101011100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, gundagai, road, to, and, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gundagai is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word gundagai at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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