Poem Analysis of Since The Country Carried Sheep by Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Since The Country Carried Sheep that begins with:

We trucked the cows to Homebush, saw the girls, and started back,
Went West through Cunnamulla, and got to the Eulo track.... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabb Xcdd ddee ffaagghh ccee ccii ccjj Xccee
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,4,4,4,5,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 110101001011101 11110001100101 10111000111101 01011111010101 101010101011101 10101010111101 11101111110011 11010101010101 111000100110101 01010100010101 11011101010101 110001001010101 11110101111101 01010101010001 11101010010101 1111011010101 11111111100101 11100010110101 00101110110011 1111101010111 01011101011101 01000101010111 1110101110111 110001001010101 01101111010111 11110111010101 11010101110111 010100100010001 11010101011101 01010101010101 11010100010001 11010101110101 111101110100101 01010100010001 10110101011111 110111001010101
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
Average number of words per stanza: 49
Amount of lines: 43
Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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Since The Country Carried Sheep by Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant: poem analysis

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