This is an analysis of the poem Shearing At Castlereagh that begins with:
The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot,
There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeecX ffggcX hhiicX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101010101 11110101010101 11101101110101 01001100010101 11110111110101 01000111010100 0111000101010101 11000101111101 11010101110101 11010101010001 01011101010111 11010101011100 01110101010001 11100101111001 101010101110101 11101101010101 01010101111101 010111010111000 01010101010101 11010101110001 01010101110101 11110101010101 11010101111101 0101010101010000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 498
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word castlereagh at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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