This is an analysis of the poem Those Names that begins with:
The shearers sat in the firelight, hearty and hale and strong,
After the hard day's shearing, passing the joke along: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeXceeaXcceeXXXXXdXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100100101111 1001110100101 0101101011100101 1010110101101101 0100110100101101 0101101000100101 10100111010110101 1101010010101 1010111011011110 110100101100101 1101101011100111 101110101101101 1010011000110100 1101101011100101 110010001011101 101001010110101 11110010110101 100010011000 110100100110101 010011110111101 1010111010100101 111100101101111 1001010100100 1001110110101 1101000101001 1001000110000 1010000001111001 10100101110101111 011011111111101 11101011101101010 10100101011001110 110010111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2055
- Average number of words per stanza: 361
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, he, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, and are repeated.
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