This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Ben Hall's Gang that begins with:
Come all ye wild colonials And listen to my tale;
A story of bushrangers' deeds I will to you unveil....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXa bbcaXa dedaXA ffaXA ccaXa ggaea ffafa hhaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110100110011 01001001100101 1011010110111 111111101 100111 11110101110101 01011101010111 01110111 010101 1011101010 11011 1101011111001 01111101 110111 11001000110101 11111101 110111 1101000101001010 110101011101110 11010101110100 11101111 110111 1101110011101 11010101010111 100110010101 11010100 1110111 11010101111101 0111100100101 10010101110111 11010101 010111 111101010101010 011111010100110 110010101111111 01010111 110111 1111010110111 1011010110001 1101010110101 11101110 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, they are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hall at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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