This is an analysis of the poem Lachlan Side that begins with:

REGION of damper and junk and tea,
Region of pastures wide!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cBBAAB caca cD bebe cD XbXb cD fefe cD gbgbXcBBAAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101111 100101 010100101 1110101 10 1100101 1010111 111101111 111101101 1110101 111100101 1101111 110100101 0100101 10 11001011100 111010111 1100101 011110101 1100101 10 11001011100 110101101 0111001 010110101 1100101 10 11001011100 110110111 1100111 110100101 1100101 10 11001011100 111100101 0011101 011111111 1110101 10 1100101 1010111 111101111 111101101 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words region, i are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word side at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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