This is an analysis of the poem The Author's Farewell To The Bushmen that begins with:
Some carry their swags in the Great North-West,
Where the bravest battle and die,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdefegbgb fhfhdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100111 10101011 1011101111 1011101 011110101 1010111 1111100111 001110011 111110101 1111101 110111111 1011111 111110111 1110110 10100110111 00111101 1011111111 00100110 010100101 11100111 111110101 1100110 110011101 00110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 449
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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