This is an analysis of the poem Morgan's Dog that begins with:
Morgan the drover explained,
As he drank from his battered quart-pot, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaea bfbf ghgh ijij cacaXgbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001 111001011 1001111 0001001 1011001 1011011 0001011 1011101 1111011 1001001 1001001 1001001 1101011 1111001 1011001 1001101 1011011 1001101 1001011 1001001 1011011 1011001 1101011 1001001 1011001 1101001 1111011 1001011 1001011 1101001 0011011 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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