This is an analysis of the poem Hopeful Hawkins that begins with:
Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat,
And to bait him was our chiefest form of bliss;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcB daea faXX caXa ccgc Xfcf fefe gaca gfff Xhch iada gchc igXgXabcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001110101 10111110101 10100011110101 1101011100 111010100010101 1101010101 10111011111101 10101010111 111111101010101 10010011111 1111010010101 11100100001 11111111011101 001010101010 11101011010101 11010101010 111110101111111 11101010101 1101011010101 1101010111 11010101011101 0101011110 11111010111111 1011111101 111010101111101 11101111101 1110011000101010 11110010101 11110111110101 11111010011 10101111110101 11101110001 111110101011101 10101111100 0111111110001 0101010111 11011100111101 01010100110 11110111011001 111110101110 11010111110101 10100010101 11110101101010 1101010111 111110100010101 11100110101 1111011010111110 11101110101 11010100011101 11101011101 0010101011101010 11100010101 1010101110101 10101010101 1110101011100010 1101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, to, we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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