This is an analysis of the poem The New Chum Jackeroo that begins with:
Let bushmen think as bushmen will,
And say whate’er they choose,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcXcX XdXd Xdcd cacX baba aeae cfcf aaaX XeaeXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 111011 11010101 111100 11111111 111111 10111101 011100 01011101 110101 11011111 010101 11010110 110101 11110101 010001 11110111 010101 01110001 111100 11010111 010101 01111101 011111 11011101 010101 11011111 0111001 11010101 011111 11010101 110101 11011101 101101 11010111 011100 111111000 010111 01111111 110101 11110101 111101 010111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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