This is an analysis of the poem A Dream Of The Melbourne Cup that begins with:
Bring me a quart of colonial beer
And some doughy damper to make good cheer, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccbddbeeeb ffbgXgb aabfffb hXXXiiX jjbhhXb ddkfffk bXlfffl cchfffX mmbXXXX mmbmmmb ffhnnnh mmgeXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101001001 1110100101 11101010 100111001 01000111 11110101 11101010 10010111 011010101 1101110 11010111 11110101 1110100111 1111010 11010101 1111001001 01101010 1011111101 111010110 0110100111 11101010 101101101 111010101 0101010 110100101 1101111011 110100101 01101110 101011111 1101010011 11010111 1011111111 1111101001 1100110101 1111011 110111101 1100111101 0101010 0100100111 111011101 01011110 01011010 11011111 1011110101 1101010 111010101 0110100101 1100100110 111001010 1101101010 1010111101 0111010 110100111 1011110111 1111100111 11001010 10011101 010100101 11111010 1101001001 110100101 101011111 1010010001 111100101 1110110101 11001110 1101001111 1101111011 101011111 11111101 100100111 100110101 11001110 100111101 100111111 1011110111 11101010 10101001 011110111 0101010 110101101 110010111 11010101 110101010 110110111 111110101 01011110 111101111 1111011011 1110100101 111011000
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 93
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, thousands, i, to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, under, stick, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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