This is an analysis of the poem The Story Of Mongrel Grey that begins with:
This is the story the stockman told
On the cattle-camp, when the stars were bright; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdbdbcc aeXecc eXeXff ededcc eeeebb babacc gegeee ababcc dedecc heheaa dhdhii ababcc cacaaa ajajcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 000100101 1010110101 011110101 1100100101 110101101 11110100101 110101101 111001111 1011001101 11101001 110100101 100100101 111111111 1111110101 1110110100 111110111 0010111101 101101101 1011111101 1011110101 011101111 010101100 100100101 1011110101 1110101101 100101101 0110110101 101100101 010100111 1101101101 100100111 110100101 10110111 100110101 101101101 101100101 1010110111 100111101 101100101 1011000101 1011010101 00100110101 110101101 1011110101 1010110101 0110111101 010101101 11110101111 100101111 010100111 110100101 1100111111 111101101 111101101 110110101 11101001010 10110110101 11110101110 010101111 110110101 111101111 110111101 1110100101 010101101 100100101 100100101 111100111 100100111 100101101 010101101 0110101111 011110111 1101010011 110110111 1110110101 111110101 111100111 1010101101 110111101 100101111 111101101 111000111 111101101 0011101111 111110101 101011101 100110111 1110101111 111100111 010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, to, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word grey at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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