This is an analysis of the poem Bush Christening that begins with:

On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
And men of religion are scanty, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabaccbc dXce XXbX Xfgf XcdX hXbX hegX Xece eXbX XacX XXgX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010101011 110010110 101101111111 110011010 101101001111 110110010 111101111111 1010110010 101101001011 110111001 111101101001 1011010101 101011111110 00100111100 111001101011 10101100100 111011111011 1010011010 001001111001 0111010110 101001111101 1010011110 110011011011 10101100100 101101110001 1010010010 1010010101001 111010110 111111101001 1010011101 101001111001 1010111011 101101101001 1110111111 111111101011 1110101111 111111101001 0010110110 101011101101 1111011100 101011101001 1111011010 01111101101 111010010 11000110101 1011111110 001101111001 1110010100 111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words poke, and are 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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