This is an analysis of the poem The Drover's Sweetheart that begins with:
An hour before the sun goes down
Behind the ragged boughs, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd babaefef ghghbebe aiaiicic ajajklkl lclccaca ckckbdbd kmkmhlhl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110010111 010101 11010101 110101 11110111 010101 11111111 110101 11010101 110101 01010101 010100 11010101 111111 11010001 111101 11010111 111111 11010101 110101 11010111 10101101 11010111 110101 11111101 110101 01110101 110101 11111111 110111 11011111 001101 11010101 110111 01000101 011101 111100111 101101 01010101 1101011 11011101 011101 11111001 110101 01010111 0101001 11110111 110101 11110101 011111 01010111 010111 11110101 111101 11111101 110101 10110101 010101 11111101 110111 11010111 111101 11011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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