This is an analysis of the poem 'Jim Of Maribyrnong' that begins with:
They were forthright days when Jim was born,
When they called a spade a spade.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXXX dbdbcdXd efefcgXg dedecfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111 1110101 11010101 110101 1110111101 11001101 111101000 110001 11111111 1001001 11001111 110101 10110101 110101 111101000 110101 11110101 1110101 111011101 1101001 01011101 110011 111101000 110101 11110101 1010101 111110101 101111 110111001 111101 110101000 0011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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