This is an analysis of the poem The Road To Gundagai that begins with:
The mountain road goes up and down
From Gundagai to Tumut Town ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cc cX dd ee ff gg cc hh caX bb ii ii cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 01000101 11011101 01011111 01011101 01010101 01111111 01010100 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 010101001 11010101 01010101 11010101 11011101 11011101 01110101 01110111 111101101 100110101 111101000 11010101 11010101 11111110 01010101 11010111 01111111 11110001 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words across, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Road To Gundagai;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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