This is an analysis of the poem Sweeney that begins with:
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down,
When I came, in search of `copy', to a Darling-River town; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddee ccdd ffXg XddX hhdd iXjj jjee kkbb ieaa eejX aaaa ggdd lldd hXmm Xikk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101011101 111010100010101 111011101010111 111010101111101 101011001110101 101010111111111 1100001101111011 111110101111101 1100111111110100 111111111110101 111010100011001 101010101010111 101111100010111 101110101011101 111011100011101 101100111010001 01111101010111 1010011101010111 010111001101010 111110101010101 101110101011101 111011101010101 111000101111111 101010101010111 101000101011111 111110101010111 111010100011101 101010101011111 001110111011100 101110101010101 111010010010101 1101010100010101 1010011101010101 111110101010101 111000101010101 111010101100101 111010001110101 111010101010101 111010101110111 101001101110101 101110101110111 101010100110101 1110100101111101 111010100011110 101010100010101 101001101010101 100110101011101 111101101010111 111010101011101 111110111111101 11110111010101 111011100010101 101010101010101 101010100010001 001010111011001 111011111110101 111010101010001 1010101010101001 101111100010001 101000101010101 101000101010111 111000101100100 101010110011111 001010100010100 101110111010101 101010100010101 111010101010101 11110111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; and, he, i, his, in, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
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