This is an analysis of the poem Westward Ho! that begins with:

There's a damper in the ashes, tea and sugar in the bags,
There's whips of feed and shelter on the sandridge for the nags,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbX ddcc XXee ffcc eeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000101110001 11011101011101 1101011110111 11110110001001 11101010111111 011011101101101 10101010010111 1010101011101110 101010101010101 011101001110100 11010101110001 11010101110110 01010101011101 01010101010110 11111110101101 11010101111101 111101011100101 111110110111101 1100101011100111 110010101111101 11111111110101 101010010110101 111111001010101 1101010111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, there's, which, many, to, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there's is repeated.

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  • summary of Westward Ho!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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