This is an analysis of the poem Farewell To Anzac that begins with:
Oh, hump your swag and leave, lads, the ships are in the bay -
We've got our marching orders now, it's time to come away -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb ffaa ggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111011001 11110101010101 101010101111101 1110010010101 11110101011101 11111101011111 11111101011111 1110010010111 100100010101 100100110101 11110101010111 1110010010101 11110101010101 110011101111101 11010101110101 1110010010111 10010010111 1001000110111 101110110001 1110010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; to, and, leaving, them, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word leaving is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word lie at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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