This is an analysis of the poem Somewhere Up In Queensland that begins with:
He's somewhere up in Queensland,
The old folks used to say;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBacdcXBXBXeXe aBfbfXXX gBfbahgh aiAiAhahXahdhAiAi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 011101 1111011 010101 1111011 110101 1111010 110101 1101110 011101 1101110 010101 1101110 110101 1101010 110111 1101011 011101 1101110 011101 1101110 110111 11110101 110100 1101110 011101 1111010 110101 0101011 110101 11000100 0011100 0111011 111111 0111011 0101011 0111011 110101 1111011 1100101 111011 110111 1101010 110101 1111011 1100101 1111011 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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