This is an analysis of the poem Squatter's Children that begins with:
On the unbreathing sides of hills
they play, a specklike girl and boy,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbddee cacaffaX XgXgbXhh XaXaaahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 11010111 01110101 010101 110001111 01010111 01010101 01011101 01110101 01011101 01011101 101101 01000101 01001101 01111101 10000100 1100010 01100101 10110100 10001 01000101 0101000 11011011 11000010 10011001 11011101 11011101 010111 10010111 110001 01010001 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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.
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