This is an analysis of the poem Shearing With A Hoe that begins with:
The track that led to Carmody's is choked and overgrown,
The suckers of the stringybark have made the place their own; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXbb ccbb ddbb ccbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110100011101 01000100110111 01011101111101 11110100010001 01011100111100 01110101010001 11010011110111 01011100010001 11011101111111 11010101110101 110101001010111 0111101010001 11000101010101 11000101110101 11011101010101 01011100010001 01000101111111 11010101110101 101110101001011101 111101010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the 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 ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Shearing With A Hoe;
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