This is an analysis of the poem The Two Devines that begins with:
It was shearing time at the Myall Lake,
And then rose the sound through the livelong day ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBcXdedecX eaeacX XcaXcX cfXfcX dbdbcX eXeXcX abaBXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011011011 11101101001 0010110111 1010101101 11100100101 11101001100 1110100111 1100100101 10101011001 1110110101 0010100101 10101001100 1010111101 1100101101 1011100111 1100110111 10010100111 01110101100 1010111101 1110100101 1010101101 0011110100 1010110111 1111100101100 10101110101 011110111 10101101100 1110110101 10111101001 10101101100 01101001101 1011111101 1010110111 1011100101 00111101001 11101101100 10111100101 10011110100100 10111110101 11011010101 10110110101 111110100100 111011011 10101001001 0010110111 1010101101 10100100110100 10101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; they, dead, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word devines at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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