This is an analysis of the poem Country Roads ~ Pretty Sally that begins with:
The diggers came from Bendigo,
From Albury the drovers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbcbbc deddefcffc geggeacaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100 0100010 01010101 110101001 1101110 11011101 0101010 11010101 11111111 1101010 01010101 0111010 11010111 01011111 0101010 10010101 0101010 10110101 10011101 1111010 110101001 1101110 11011101 11010101 1101110 11110101 1110010 11011101 10010101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sally at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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