This is an analysis of the poem The Bush Beyond The Range that begins with:

FROM Crow’s Nest here by Sydney town
Where crows had nests of old... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD efefghgh ijijabab kfkfkXka cjcjlXlX bhbXXmXmXedeDlclc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101 111101 11011111 011001 10110101 110111 11000101 010101 101011101 110111 01111101 110001 11011101 011101 01110101 1110101 11010101 110111 11000101 0100101 01111111 111101 10101101 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 111101 11010101 111110 01010101 111101 11001101 110101 01010101 010111 111101001 010101 11011101 110100 11000111 111111 01110111 110101 11000100 101111 01010100 110101 11010101 110111 11110101 010101 11010111 111101 11001101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, took are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and 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.

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