This is an analysis of the poem The Broken-Down Squatter that begins with:
Come, Stumpy, old man, we must shift while we can;
All our mates in the paddock are dead.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdc ccec daaa Xcac efXfbaea agegfcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111111 111001011 111111011011 101111011 01001011101 011111100 10110100111101 101011011 101111011 101011101 101111001001 11101011 11111001011 11100111 11101101001 11011101 101101011011 111101101 101011111001 101011011 101011001101 101001001 1111111111 101011001 101101101001 101001011 11100111001 101011001 110110110010 11011101 101001101111 111101011 111101101101 101011101 11111111001 101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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