This is an analysis of the poem The Maid Of Gerringong that begins with:
Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast,
With a sound of torrents flying, like a routed army, past,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddeefXgghhiXeefX ggbbjjjjfX ggkklliifX kkggccccfX kkllggddfX mmmmXdkkfX aaiiddaafX aaXdiiggfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010101 001010101010101 1010101001010101 111110101010111 101010100110101 101010101010101 001101101011111 111010101011101 001101101011101 111110101110100 1110101110100001 101011111010100 101010101010101 101011111010101 111110011011111 1001010111010100 111111110111111 101010101010111 1001010101011101 101010101010100 111010111010101 101010011010101 101010101011101 111110110110111 001111101110101 101010101010101 111010111110111 111110100110101 1111111011101001 100011101010100 111011111010101 1010011010011100 1001111111010111 101010110110101 111010101010101 101111101110001 101010101110101 111110100011101 101110111011101 111111101110100 111111111000101 111010101110101 1110111010011101 111010111011101 101010101110101 111011101100101 0110111100101001 111111101110101 101010101010101 111111101110100 111110111111101 101010100010111 111110101010101 1111101110010101 1010101010101010 1011101010101010 111010100010111 111000100110101 111111101010111 111110111110100 001010110011101 011110100111101 111010111110101 111111101011101 111111111110101 001011101011111 100011111011001 11111101110101 11100011110111 111110101110100 001010100110001 101110100011101 1111001100110111 001011101110110 111111101111101 1001111101011111 111011101110101 101010101010101 111011001110101 111110101110100 111000111011101 111010101010101 101111101101111 111111111111001 111100101110101 1001110111111101 111111101010101 101010101110011 111111101110101 111011101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 733
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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, oh, of, to, my, would, you, in, love, we, they, now, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words changes, oh, hide, down, and, did, had, now are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gerringong at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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