A Motor Courtship by Banjo Paterson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Motor Courtship that begins with:

Into her presence he gaily pranced,
A very fat spark, and a bit advanced. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabb bb bb bb cc bX bb cX bb dX ee aa cX ff dd eX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0001011010 0101110101 0010110111 11111001101 111010101 010100101 0101101101 01101111 011100101 1100101101 100011101010 11001001010 1010111001 111011111010 100101010010 11011011110 101110101010 01001110000 10111011010 0111011010 101001110010110 11110011000 11101001010 1010111011010 10100111101 111101101 1011101111110 111011111000 00100101101 111111101 1101001010 1111011010 10101001010 110011101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; he, and, you are repeated.

    The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of A Motor Courtship;
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