This is an analysis of the poem A New Girl Up At White’s that begins with:

THERE’S a fresh track down the paddock
Through the lightwoods to the creek,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc dedefgfg bhbhijij dedebkbk clclmeme cjcjXngnXbabadhdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111010 1010001 11101010 1010111 10101010 1110001 110101010 1010101 11011010 0010111 10101010 1010101 10111010 1111101 10101010 10011111 10100010 1110101 00111010 1011101 11101010 1111101 101010010 1101101 11111010 1010101 10111010 1010101 110101010 1010111 10101110 1110001 11110010 1010110 11100010 1110101 11111111 1011101 11101111 11101101 00111110 1110111 10101010 1011101 100101100 1110101 10101010 1111001 11110110 1110101 10101010 1010101 101001010 1110111 111101010 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; s is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or are repeated.

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  • summary of A New Girl Up At White’s;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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