This is an analysis of the poem The Loafers' Club that begins with:
A club there is established here, whose name they say is Legion
From Melbourne to the Billabong, they're known in every region.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeeff aagg ffhhhhddXffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001011111010 0100010011010010 111101011101010 111010101101010 011101011100010 110101011101010 010101110100011 101101011100111 111101111101010 011101011101010 110101010111110 100101010101110 010101110101010 111101011111010 111111111111010 101101011101010 111101011001010 100101010100110 0101010101001101 1111010101000101 111111111101010 010100010110111 010101010111111 0101010111010101 010101011101010 101111111111010 110111010111010 1101011110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; they, to, and, you, they'll, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sir, him are repeated).
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