This is an analysis of the poem That There Dog O' Mine that begins with:
Macquarie the shearer had met with an accident. To tell the truth, he had been in a drunken row at a wayside shanty, from which he had escaped with... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X X a X X X X a X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 100101101100010111000101101110011101011010111100100100110100101101000000101110100101 1010010011101100101110001011101111001100101011010110111101001001100100110100 1010101011111110011111011010010101011010010101111110010111101001 10110110011010111101000101100111111001111111111010101 10110001101000101110010011001011101011000101011111100111 11100111110010111110110100111100110111111110101 1111100010100100110111111001101110101101011101011111011111101011110111111111 0000101010011110110110100111111111011100110111111110010101010111011011111101011 110011101011111101011100110111011100101110011111111101101011001101010101101101011111100111111001100111111101101100111101101110111110011101001011 11001101111010101010010010101111110011110111111111110111101011111111010101111011111111110101101111101111110101011101110111111 1101010111111011101011111011010110111011100111101110101 111001101110011000111110101110010111100111110001101010010101100111101101010 1001010111101010111010111101110101100111111111101110111011100111011010111110010111110011100100101111111 111110111111011111011110100101100011101111111001 1011110110010011001010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 310 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 60
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, in, and, had, ', on, they, his, tally, macquarie, dogs, said, with, you, as, 'no, dog, he's, for, me, she, i, when, again, of, through, old, up, hard, follered, then, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words macquarie, he are repeated.
The author used the same words macquarie, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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