This is an analysis of the poem Babs Malone that begins with:
Babs Malone Now the squatters and the cockies,
Shearers, trainers, and their jockeys ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaab ccdccX eefbbf gddhhd iijiXj eejiiXiiiXkX iiibii iXdccd ggbiib iilddl ggikki gghkh kkiXXi ggjddj kkeccX kkagga ggmhhm ggdiid iibkkb ggbkkb XgnkXn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,12,6,6,6,6,6,5,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101010 10101110 11000101010101 11101110 10111010 10011101010111 10101010 10111010 01010111111101 1101010 10100010 01000101010100 01101010 11101010 01100101110101 10111010 10111010 01110101010101 10101010 00111110 110111001010111 0101011 111010011 01001000111101 1101010 10101010 11010100010101 11111011 10111010 11011101010101 00101010 10101010 101111101010101 10111110 11101110 01011111010001 10111010 10100110 01001100010111 0101010 11100010 110110001111010 10101110 10100110 0101101010101 1001110 11101110 01010100010101 11100010 10101100 11110101010101 0110010 11100010 11111101110101 10101110 10100110 11010110010111 0111110 10101010 11010101110001 1110010 10111010 101010100010101 10111110 111001010 11010111111101 10101110 10111110 101110101010101 10101010 10101010 01010111000101 10111010 10101010 101110101100101 1010111010101110 11011101010001 11101010 11101010 01010111010101 11101010 100101011 01111111110101 10101010 10111110 101000101010101 10101010 10110010 001010101001001 1101010 11110010 101010101011101 1101010 10111010 11011111010111 1101010 11100110 11010100110101 10111010 10111010 11000111111111 1111010 01101010 01010111010101 10111010 11101010 11010101110101 1101110 11111010 01010101110111 11101110 10111110 11110101111101 10101010 10101110 11011101010011 1100110 10101010 11100101010101 1101010 10101010 11010100111101 11111110 10101110 11010101010101 1101110 111010100 11110111010101 1101010 001010100 01010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; his, and, he, but, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, on, and are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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