This is an analysis of the poem Brigalow Mick that begins with:
A dandy old horsernan is Brigalow Mick-
Which his name, sir, is Michael O'Dowd -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca abab adad ebeb dcdc Xcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110001001 101101001 11011011001 101101001 01101111101 101001001 111101011111 001101001 101011011101 101111101 11001011111 111111001 11101011011 111011101 110010110111 101111101 101101011001 111001011 11001011011 001001001 01101001101 111011101 110100010001 101000001 11100101101 001011101 11101011101 001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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