This is an analysis of the poem The Swagman's Rest that begins with:
We buried old Bob where the bloodwoods wave
At the foot of the Eaglehawk; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXcXXdXdXdXdX ececfgfg hXheababbdbdddXd bibiafaf XdgdXeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,16,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 10100100 1100110111 1110111 110110101 00100101 101010001010 1110110100 111110101 0100111 100100111 100111 1111100101 1101101100 10000101011 1011011010 1110111101 1010111 11111001001 0111111 011000101 010101 1011111101 1110111 110010111 101011010 111110111 1100101 1101110101 10101101 1111011001 1101111 101111110111 011101 111101101 1100101 110010111 0100101 11110010010 1100101 011110111 1100111 1010100101 1100101 11100110101 11100101 110001001001 0110111 1110110110 11000101 110010111 1100101 1010100111 1100101 1010110100 01111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, we are repeated.
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