This is an analysis of the poem The Queer Ways Of Australia that begins with:

Dick Briggs, a wealthy farmer’s son,
To England lately took a run,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabccccdddb Xaaab dddbeeecccb fffbggggdddbdXdbddddhhXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,11,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 01010101 01011111 110100010 01010111 001010101 11010101 11010111 11011111 11011001 01010101 0010010 10 11010101 01010101 11010101 00110010 11110001 01011101 111110101 00100010 11111111 11011101 01111101 11110111 11010101 11110101 01000010 0110101 01010101 01010101 1111010010 11110111 111111001 11110101 11001101 11010111 11010111 1110101 11110010 11010101 111111000 110010111 0110010 11110001 11010101 11011101 111111001 11111111 11111101 11110101 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, for, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word australia at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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