This is an analysis of the poem He Had So Much Work To Do that begins with:
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,
Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never rest... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacX dddd eebb aaff ggcc ggbb aabb ffdd hhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101000100001 101011101100101 101111101010101 101010111111101 101011101010001 101111101110111 1110110101011100 11101010111110 111010110110101 11101011010001 101110111110011 001000110011101 111010101011101 1001100101111001 00110110111111 111010101111101 1001011101010101 111011101010101 111110100010111 11111101111001 1111101111101 111011100010100 101010101110111 111110101111101 111010101010111 101011101011101 111111101110101 111111101011101 111010101011111 111110100010101 101110101011111 111111100011111 101110101010101 111100101110010 101011101010101 111110101110101 11001011000100101 101011101111111 111011101110111 111000101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, jim, at, for, he, you, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jim is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase scott connects the lines.
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