This is an analysis of the poem The Overlander that begins with:
There's a trade you all know well
It's bringing cattle over... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbdX edXX afgfgegX fhfhgXgX ijijXbXX kleX cbgX lecemXeX kmkmdddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,8,4,4,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 0101010 11110101 1101010 111110101 00101010 11010101 001111000 1011111 1101011 1011101 01001000 11010010 10111001 1101110 1111001 110111 01100110 1010011 00101000 110111 1011111 11110111 0101101 1110101 1111110 100100101 01110000 1111110 1110101 11101111 1110101 1111111 1101010 100110101 1010101000 1101011 1110111 11111100 01011010 1101111 11111010 1111001 101001000 0101011 010111 11010100 111101 1101011 1111110 1010011001 11110000 0111011 110101 11010011 110101 110111 1101001 11111101 10010101000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saw, and are repeated.
The author used the same word next at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word overlander at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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