This is an analysis of the poem Over The Range that begins with:

Little bush maiden, wondering-eyed,
Playing alone in the creek-bed dry, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcacaXaddcbX XedefcfX ghghicic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101101001 100100111 0011111001 101010101 110101101 1011101111 101011110011 101100100101 1001101111 111010011100 101110110011 110010101 1011000111 1111110101 10111010101 110010100100 10100101110 101100111010 110110101 0111001010 110111111 1101111001 110111101 110010100100 111101101 1010111111 100101101 111011101 1111110101 111100101 1110111101 00100101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; in, and, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines face is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word range at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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