This is an analysis of the poem Shearing's Coming that begins with:
There's a sound of many voices in the camp and on the track,
And letters coming up in shoals to stations at the back;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb BB XXcc BB ddcc BB eeffXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010100011101 11010101010101 1100111000101010 01010101010001 10101011010101 101000101100101 101011100010101 101110010010110 101011100011101 101010100010111 10101011010101 101000101100101 01100101010001 101011100010101 101010101010101 001010101011111 10101011010101 101000101100101 11010101010001 101000100010011 101010101110101 101110101010101 10101011010101 101000101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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