This is an analysis of the poem Echuca that begins with:

With wood and wool for Adelaide
The paddle boats came down... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccb cdcdeed cecebbe afafggf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101 010111 110100101 110101 11010101 11010101 010001 10010101 010101 110101001 111101 11100111 01110101 001101 11110100 111101 00010101 110101 10010111 10110101 110111 01010111 110001 11111110 110111 11110101 11010101 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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.

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  • summary of Echuca;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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