This is an analysis of the poem Old North Sydney that begins with:
They're shifting old North Sydney—
Perhaps ’tis just as well—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeae AbdbfgXg XeaeXXdX dhXhcfAf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 011111 1101010 1011101 1101010 110111 10100110 010101 0100110 001111 0110111 110101 0101010 110101 1101010 010111 0111010 011101 10100110 110101 1011010 111101 0101101 1010101 0011010 010101 1110010 111011 1101010 110101 0100110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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