This is an analysis of the poem The Mylora Elopement that begins with:

By the winding Wollondilly where the weeping willows weep,
And the shepherd, with his billy, half awake and half asleep, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXcc dXee ffcc bbgX bbbhhffiijjiieXggXeekkeeeiiXiddXXeee ccbbkkXkbbbXhddeegXeeXe ggeggecccekklmmlcck kkX een nbbccckX Xhhbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,36,23,19,3,3,8,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101010001010111 101000101011101 1010111010000101 11101010100011001 101010101010101 111001101110110 101011101010101 101111101110101 10010010101010101 101010101010101 111000100010111 101010101110101 111110101110111 101110101011101 011010111010101 111011101011101 1001011101011101 111110100110101 11111111010111 1011011011101110 01111101 11011001 10110111 100101101 10110111 111101101 1101101101 110111101 1010010101 110010101 11111001 1101001001 01110111 111101110 0111011110 010011111 11011101 10101010010100 110100111 01010101 1011110101 101101101 110111111 01011111 011110101 101110101 111011101 111101110 111011001 111110101 01011111 11111110 110111010 110110101 110100111 01011111 100010111 10110111 11111110 10011111 10110101 010110101 101101010 10111101 0110100101 11111101 1101110101 0100100101 01101111 11010101 110100101 11010011 11111101 111101101 1010100100 1010110101 011110101 1110111100 11010101 01011111 010011111 0111001 01110111 111110111 110101 10101111 1011110101 110010101 100101 11111111 1011101111 0100101 1101101111 11110101 110111 1000101101 10110101 111011 1010110111 11111101 10110100 01010001 01110101 11111101 11011001 10111010101 11010101 101011111 111011101 1010110111 01111010011 11001100010 101010001010101 101010101001101 111011101110111 100100101001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 125
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, more, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , i, two, and, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Mylora Elopement;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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