This is an analysis of the poem Gone Down that begins with:
To the voters of Glen Innes 'twas O'Sullivan that went,
To secure the country vote for Mister Hay. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXXcXdXdbcXc cacabXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001001101010011 00101011101 111011111110111 10100110101 1110111101010111 1011100011010 111010111110101100 10101111 111000101110101 00101110101 01111110001000010 11111011101 001000101110101 10101111101 10101011101010110 10101111 101011101010011 0100110101 101001101010001 001010011101 1010110100110101 101000111010 101110101010001 10001011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 678
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word down at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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