This is an analysis of the poem Old Town Types No.1 - The Old Town that begins with:
Fierce on the wheat-sown Mallee plain
The ruthless summer suns burned down,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabbcX dddddeecX fcXfcddcX gXgXXbbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 01010111 11110001 11011101 1100100111 01111101 11010101 01111001 11110111 111000111 10010101 10111100 01111101 11110111 11110101 11110001 11010111 10111111 11001101 11010111 10011100 11111101 11110101 01010110 11011101 01011111 10011101 11011101 10110100 111101001 110011010 11010101 11011111 11111101 0101111 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words ', thro' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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