This is an analysis of the poem The Freehold On The Plain that begins with:
I'm a broken-down old squatter, my cash it is all gone,
Of troubles and bad seasons I complain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaA aaaA baba cacaXcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00101110110011 0101110101 1101110010111 11111011101 01010110101000 1100010001 11001101001101 11111011101 10111010110001 11010011 111010101111101 11111011101 1111010111101 0011110001 11111010011111 11111011101 111101010101 01101011101 1010011111101 10101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word plain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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