This is an analysis of the poem Before We Were Married that begins with:
BLACKSOIL PLAINS were grey soil, grey soil in the drought.
Fifteen years away, and five hundred miles out;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccee XXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101111001 010011110101 11111010111 0110101111101 10101010001 101011100101 110010101110101 0110101110001 101010110111 101010001001 111111101101 0110101111011 0101010111101 1100101110 11001110111 011110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; and is repeated.
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