This is an analysis of the poem Golden Gully that begins with:
No one lives in Golden Gully, for its golden days are o’er,
And its clay shall never sully blucher-boots of diggers more,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccddaabbddeeddffXXbbffggccbbccaabbXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010111 101110101010101 101011101110101 101110101100101 111011101010001 011010101000101 001010101010101 101001100010101 101110101010101 001010100010101 1111110101010001 001011101010101 1010110101000111 111110101011111 101010101011111 1001010101100111 011010101010101 110110101010111 1011101010101101 101010101011101 101010101011111 101010101110101 110011101010101 101111101011101 111011001011111 101010100010101 1110101010101111 101010101000101 101011101010101 101010101010111 101010100011001 101010101110101 111010101110101 111110101110101 111011101010101 1110101011010101 10010101010100101 101010101010111 1001110101110111 101110101010101 111010101010111 101110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2692
- Average number of words per stanza: 471
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; diggers, its, and, of, tales, you are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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