This is an analysis of the poem The Never-Never Country that begins with:
By homestead, hut, and shearing-shed,
By railroad, coach, and track -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacA dedefaaa cgcgaehe fidiaaaa cajacaaa bdbdeaea XkekbXaa Xdhdciai aiXihdhdXdjdjeaeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 111111 11010111 110111 0111000101 010101 111101010 0010101 01010101 110111 01010001 011101 001110101 110101 01010101 010101 11110101 110101 11010101 010101 01111111 111101 01010101 1101001 01000111 011101 110000101 011101 11111111 111101 01000111 101101 11011101 010111 11110111 1011111 11110111 110101 110011011 010101 11011101 100111 01010111 110101 11111111 111101 11011101 1100101 01011101 110101 110100001 110101 11110101 1111100 11110111 111111 11000100 011001 11011111 110111 010101010 010101 0010010 111101 01001101 010101 01110100 1010111 10111101 101111 11010010 111001 11111101 1100101 11011101 110101 10111101 110111 01111101 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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; by, and, land, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, a, the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines land is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word land at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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