This is an analysis of the poem The Billy-Goat Overland that begins with:
Come all ye lads of the droving days, ye gentlemen unafraid,
I'll tell you all of the greatest trip that ever a drover made, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc ddaa eeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111001011100101 1111001011100101 11111111111101101 110010010110101101 110011010111001010 1101010011111010 11011010110100111 011101101111001 0101001011111011 110110101100111101 1100111110100101 11010010110101101 1110101011110101 1111011010101100111 110010111111101101 11011010100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, our, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word overland at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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