This is an analysis of the poem The Gundaroo Bullock that begins with:
Oh, there's some that breeds the Devon that's as solid as a stone,
And there's some that breeds the brindle which they call the "Goulburn... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXccbX ddXX aadX ddbX eeXXbX ffbXccbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101110101 11111010111010010 101010101110101 1010100101111100 10111010101001 101010101111101 101110101011001 111111101010100 11010100010101 1110101010110111 111000101010101 1010101000101000 1010110100010101 101110101010001 1100011011101 0100010101010100 1111010010111 11000111110101 101010100010111 0101001011101000 11000101110101 11010111111101 101001010101011000 110100100111101 11110101111111 101110100110100 1111010111101 01110101110101 11010101011101 1111111000101000 101110101010101 001010101111101 10101001011001 11101110001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; that, breeds, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gundaroo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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