This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Cockatoo Dock that begins with:
Of all the docks upon the blue
There was no dockyard, old or new, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab ccc dab eeX eee Xdb ffX ggg hhh iii jXj fff ccXXada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 11111111 01011101 010101001 111101001 11000100 01111100 01000101 01011101 01010101 101110111 110101010 10101101 11010101 11010101 1010101110 01011100 01001101 011100101 11111110 11110100 11110101 01001101 11011111 10010101 111011101 11010101 101010101 11110001 11010101 101010101 11000101 11011101 101110101 11110101 11010101 100010101 11010111 010101010 11010101 11011100 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words of, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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