This is an analysis of the poem The Wreck Of The Golfer that begins with:
It was the Bondi golfing man
Drove off from the golf house tee, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXXXX dXEa XXaX XXcX Xfaf eXEX XXeb egdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 1100111 1111001010 011100 1010111101 11001010 101011001010 11100101 1010101101 111010100 10101101001 11110101 1010100111 11011000 10011110101 1110101100 101011011 11101110 110110110 11111110 111100100 11100101 1011100101 1100101 1010111101 101101010 10101101001 1011111 10101111010 11011000 10101101001 010111 10111101001 1101111 111100110 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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.
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