This is an analysis of the poem Kooroora that begins with:
The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark,
A torrent beneath them is leaping, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccX deeefffX dedecccX ghghiiiX jXjXhhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001011011 010010010 101101101001 1010100110 11001001001 111101001101 101001111001 111110100 111001011001 111011110 111011010010 110110110 101011101001 101001011001 101001001001 111110100 11001111001 1010110010 101010001011 1010010010 11001001001 01010011001 01001001001 1110011100 11001011001 1011010010 01001101001 0010010110 11001011011 01101001001 101001011001 10111100100 01001001001 110010010 11101001001 111110100 11011001001 101101001101 101001001001 111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word kooroora at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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