This is an analysis of the poem The Maranoa Drovers that begins with:
The night is dark and stormy, and the sky is clouded o'er;
Our horses we will mount and ride away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cXXX bcXX XcXXacbX XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111010101010 1101011101 01010101010001 11101011101 11101010010011 11100010111 111110110010100 10100010100 101011011010001 10101010101 11111011110101 00100010100 1111011110111 111001010101 10101011011101 011100010100 11111011111101 111110111011 01101011010011 111100010100 111010101110101 110101010111 1110011110010100 101011101000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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, going, we'll are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word maranoa at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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