This is an analysis of the poem The Drovers that begins with:
Shrivelled leather, rusty buckles, and the rot is in our knuckles,
Scorched for months upon the pommel while the brittle rein hung free;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcXdbXbXbdX XbabaXeX ebcXdXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101010100110 111010101010111 1011101001111110 101011111010101 1110111000101110 001110100011 1111101010111010 111010101111100 1110101011101110 1110101011101101 1110111010011010 101110111010111 11010101001101110 101011100011 1111011010101 10100101010101 1111111010101110 111000101010101 10110101001110010 101110100011 11101010101010010 111111110011 1111111010101011 101110101010101 1010101011111010 101010101011 1110111010111010 10101111111111 1111111011111010 101010110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, to, but, s 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 countree at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Drovers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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