This is an analysis of the poem The Bush Rangers that begins with:

Four horseman rode out from the heart of the range,
Four horseman with aspects forbidding and strange....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcC ddeXcC ccffgg eehhii ddggcCXcciiaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011001001 11001101011 101011101001 111111101001 11011101101 11011011111 11011111001 11111011001 01001011011 101011011010 110010110011 11011011111 101011111001 11101011001 11001111001 11101011111 11001011011 11001011011 11101001101 101101010011 11001001101 111011001111 101111111001 11101001001 11011111011 11101011011 111001011001 11111111011 001011101001 11011011111 111111111011 10110101011 11001111101 001001001001 100101001101 01001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, kelly, their, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words four, ned, they are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word byrne at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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