This is an analysis of the poem A Bush Girl that begins with:
She's milking in the rain and dark,
As did her mother in the past.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcDefefedXD bgbghdhd bibijbjb hkhkdddd bebeclcl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11000111 10010001 01010111 11010101 11011111 1100001101 11010101 11011101 01110101 01010111 01110010 01010111 110101011 01110101 11010010 11011101 01010111 010101001 11010001 11011101 01010101 01110101 01010111 11011101 111110001 110100101 01110111 11001101 01011111 01010111 10010001 01011101 11111110 11110101 11010101 11011101 010010111 01011111 01001101 10011101 11100101 01010111 11101001 01001111 11010111 111100111 10110101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, as, her, of are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dreams at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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