This is an analysis of the poem Morgan that begins with:
When Morgan crossed the Murray to Peechelba and doom
A sombre silent shadow rode with him through the gloom....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcc ddbbdd eeddfX ddXXdd ffffgg gghhdd iiddbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010010011 011011101101 0110010100101 0101001010111110 01110010010101 1101010110101 1101110011101 0101110010101 0101110010111 0111010111101 1111110110101 0101011011101 1111010110111 1101110110101 01000100101101 0101010111101 1101010110111 1011111001011000 1101011000111 11010100100101 100110110110101 01010111111010 0101110111101 0101011010101 1101010111101 1101011110101 0111010011111 1101110010111 10010010010101 0101110010111 1101010010101 0111110010101 1101011110111 1101010111101 1101010110101 1101100100001 1101110001101 0111100110101 1111110111001 0111110011111 1111010010101 110101010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; back, go, his, and, morgan, beware, in, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, all are repeated.
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- summary of Morgan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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