This is an analysis of the poem How Babs Malone Cut Down The Field that begins with:

Now the squatters and the “cockies,”
Shearers, trainers and their jockeys... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcaaac ddcbddeX ffghccXh ebabiiab jjakjXbk ffakjjgX jjljXmjX jjgjcjgj jXgbddib eeacjjec jjcnbbln eebjmmaj eegimmni mmajXXaj eemkbbjk mmhfddjX mXjaeeoa eejliiol eenbjjlb jjccmmac eemcmmc XebpXXXp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,7,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10101110 110001010101 01 11101110 10111010 100111010101 11 100101010 10111010 0101011111 1101 1101010 10100010 01000101010 100 01101010 11101010 01100101110 101 10111010 10111010 01110101010 101 10101010 00111110 1101110010 10111 0101011 111010011 01001000111 101 1101010 10101010 1101010001010 1 11111011 10111010 110111010101 01 00101010 10101010 1011111010 10101 101101110 11101110 0101111101000 10 10111010 10100110 0100110001011 1 010101 11100010 11011000101 110100 0101110 10100110 0101101010 101 1001110 11101110 01010100010 101 11100010 10101100 11110101010 101 0110010 11100010 11011011011 10101 10101110 10100110 1101011001011 1 0111110 10101010 11010101110 001 1110010 10111010 101010100010 101 10111110 111001010 11010111111 101 10101110 10111110 101110101010 101 10101010 10101010 01010111000 101 10111010 10101010 101110101100 101 10101110 10101110 11011101010 001 11101010 11101010 0101011101010 1 11101010 10010100110 01111111110 101 10101010 10111110 101000101010 101 10101010 10110010 001010101001 001 1101010 11110010 1010101010 11101 1101010 10111010 110111110 1011010 1101010 11100110 11010100110 101 10111010 10111010 11000111 11111 1111010 01101010 010101110101 01 10111010 11101010 1101010111 0101 1101110 11111010 010101011101 11 11101110 10111110 11110101111 101 10101010 1101110 1101110101001 1 1100110 1010110 11100101010 101 1101010 10101010 1101010011110 1 11111110 101010110 11010101010101 1101110 111010100 111101110101 01 1101100 00101010 010101011 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 197
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he 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, , ry are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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