This is an analysis of the poem Our Black Brudder that begins with:

O, fellow Australians, listen, attend:
We must cease our contemptuous swearing... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdEX fXfebbbb cXccdebe XdXdeeXe agcgadEX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101001 1111010010 11011011101 11100011010 001001111011 1100010010 011111001011 111010110 1010101011001 0010010100 01011101011 1010011010 101011001010 0111110010 11111011001 001010010 11101011011 1010010110 111100111111 1011010010 111110110110 110010010 010110111010 0111110010 11101001001 1110010010 011001101001 0010010010 11011101011 1110110010 011111111011 1011010010 010010011101 0010101010 11101111011 1011110010 10111111101 1111110010 011111001011 111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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