This is an analysis of the poem The Rhyme Of The Three Greybeards that begins with:
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat",
His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa bbb ccc ccc dXd eee eeX fff ccc gXg hXh aaa eee fXf ggg ffff iii hhX Xee ccc eee jjj Xkk ggg bXb eee ccc XXX fff dXX lll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101001010100010 011101011010100 0101010110111 1101110110101 01011101110101 1110010110101 1110010110101 0111011110001 11001010111101 1111010011101 01001111000110111 11010101111111 11110101111101 01110011010101 0111010101010010 1111001100111101 0101110010101 1111111110101 11101110111111 1010111000111011101 11110111101110 1101110010111 110100001110001 11111111110101 101110111010101 11011001110101 11011100111111 01010101111111 0101010111011100 010011101111111 1100101100001100111 111111011101000 11011100110001 01101101111101 11010101010111 01011001010101 11011100111101 11010101110101 01110101011111 11011101110101 1101111111010100 01011111111101 11011101010111 11010111010101 01110011011101 11010010110101 110010100110001 1101010111001 1101110111101 01100101011111 01111110010111 11100101110111 01110101110001 11010001011111 11101101010100 11001101101110 0101010010001 1101110101101 110100101111001 0101110111011 11100101110111 1110011011101 01011100111101 1111110111101 11010101110101 110100101111011 01010111110111 11011111110101 11111111010101 010101110101001 11111001111111 01001101011101 11111100100111101 11010111010101 1101010111011100 0111011101000111 11011101010101 10111011111001 1111010111101 1111010010101 01010111111101 11110111010111 01010111110101000 101101000010101 01100101111101000 11100110110101 11110100100101 11010101011110 11011101101001 11011111110110 1101110011101110 11111001111011 01010101111101 0101111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, they, said, talked, of, two, their, next, to, him, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and, the, she are repeated.
The author used the same words they, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines beer, bad are repeated).
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