This is an analysis of the poem Gs [or The Fourth Cook] that begins with:
He has notions of Australia from the tales that he’s been told—
Land of leggings and revolvers, land of savages and gold;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccbbb XXXbb aaaaa aabbb ddbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000100011101 101010101010011 111111111010111 1011100101011101 001010101011101 101010101010101 101100101010111 101010111010101 111110101111101 001010101110101 111110101110101 111010101010100 111010101110101 101111111011101 111111101111001 001010101010111 101001100010011 101010111100101 101011011110101 111011101011001 101111101010111 101111111111101 111011101111111 101011101110001 111011101011101 101000101010101 111000101011101 101111100010111 101110101011101 101011101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; he, and, of, time, to, em, peels, in, heroes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words peels, and, there are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spuds, spud are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word spuds at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Gs [or The Fourth Cook];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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