This is an analysis of the poem The Nights At Rocky Bar that begins with:
Trapping brumbies in the moonlight! those were nights of reckless fun,
'Way back on Campbell's country - on the Goory-bibil run,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddeX ffaa ggee eeXX bbhh iijj cckk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000111010101 11110101010101 11011101010111 111000100110101 11000110010111 11101001000101001 1001011101110001 101010101011101 11101010110101 11011101011001 101011101110011 100111101010100 11000101110111 111010111100001 11110101010101 1111101101110110 01010101110111 11001101111011 011010101010011 111010101110011 111001111100101 111001011011101 11110111010110 111010101011101 11110111110101 011110001110111 110101001100111 1010111001010111 111011101110111 11110101110111 110011100111101 1101111111101 111101011100101 111010101010001 11110111110011 11011100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, and, when, you, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, though are repeated.
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