This is an analysis of the poem The Fire At Ross's Farm that begins with:

The squatter saw his pastures wide
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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdaaa efafbgdg fehebfif aeXeeeae cejeakek fflfXeee fafahfff XaiamiXX emfXabmb abfXamal fcfcfene fbmbdelX aojoaXan dcacahbh cifiapap
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01010101 011111 01010001 010101 10010101 110111 01110101 111101 11010111 110101 11010101 010001 11011100 111101 11110101 011101 01011100 010101 01010101 110101 01010101 110111 11110101 010101 01010101 011111 11110101 10101001 11110101 010101 11011101 010101 11011101 110101 011010001 110111 11010101 011111 011011101 010001 01010101 0111010 110101010 1101110 11010100 010101 110010101 011101 01010101 1110101 01011101 110101 01110001 110011 10010101 110111 01111101 110111 11011101 110101 11000111 110101 010010101 110101 11010111 110101 11010111 011101 11010101 110101 110100011 100001 10110101 111101 11111101 111110 11111101 110001 11010101 11001010 111111010 110111 11110101 110101 010111011 010101 11010101 1010101 11010111 110101 01110101 011110 01011101 111111 111111010 010110 11010101 100101 011100101 110101 01110101 110101 11010101 110101 11000101 010101 1100101011 010101 11111101 110111 01000101 110101 11010101 111101 11110001 111101 11010101 010111 11010101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • 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; and, it, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, and, it, i'd are repeated.

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