This is an analysis of the poem The Geebung Polo Club that begins with:
It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub,
That they formed an institution called the Geebung Polo Club. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXdaa eXffggeeaa bbhhbbii bbffbb ffXXbbjjaa Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,8,6,10,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110100010111 111110101010101 101110100010101 101110101010101 111010101010011 111010101010101 111110101010011 111011000 1111101 111011101010001 101000100010101 011110100010111 101010101011101 101010101010001 1010001011000011 111010101011111 111010101010101 111010100010111 111010101110101 111110001011101 111010101010101 1110101010101011 101011100110101 101110101110111 010011101010101 111010101011101 101111101110101 101110101110101 101010101011101 101000101110001 101010101110101 111100111010001 111010101010101 1110111001100001 111111101110111 10110101010101 101010111010101 111010101010101 1011101010101110 111011101010101 111111101110101 111010101010101 101000101010101 101011001110001 101010100010101 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; and, they, their, to, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, you are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word club at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Geebung Polo Club;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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