This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Sulky Stockman that begins with:
Come, let us sing with a right good ring
(Sing hey for lifting lay, sing hey!)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBccccB dBdBccccB dBdBeeXeB cBcBbbXbb fbfBggXXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 11110111 01011011011 11101000101 01110101 1010110101 1111100101 11110110001 1010111 010110101 111010111 101011101 11101000101 010110111 101111101 1111100101 11110110101 1010111 011110111 111010111 1010010101 11101000101 1100111111 1011111111 10101101010 1111011001 1010111 111100111 111010111 10111101001 11101000101 010101011 101111111 10101101010 11110110111 1010111 011110111 111010111 1011101001 11101000101 0101001001 01011001 10101101110 111101101101 110101 11 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sing, old, hey, for, wattle, gum are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, sing are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines low is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hey at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Song Of The Sulky Stockman;
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