This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Rousabout that begins with:
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land—or none—
I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I’m—a woman’s son;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eedd ffgg hhXg Xicc aajj iiaa iiee kkff jjXj jjcc aaeeXggjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01000100010111 11011001110101 11011111110111 11010011111111 11011101111111 10110101110001 11011101110111 11011101111101 11011101110111 11010101110101 11110101110101 10010100111101 11111111110101 11011101010101 01110011011101 01110011110101 10110111111011 111101001011111 11111111110100 1010101001110101 01010101110101 11110111011101 11010101101111 01010101110101 11110101110111 11110101110101 11001101110101 110100101010101 11010101110101 11011001110001 01110001011101 01111100110101 11111111010111 110010101010111 01010111010111 01010100010100 11010111111001 010101001010101 11011101111001 110000101111100 01010111100101 11111101110111 11011111010100 01110101111001 01000100010101 11110011111111 01000100111111 11010111110101 11110101100101 1110111111000101 10111101100111 11010100111111 11111101110110 1010101001110101 11111111110101 11011111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, from, and, some, for, take, track, we, men, to, our, wrong, shed, shearing, ve, so, learned are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, some, we, a are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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