This is an analysis of the poem The Shanty On The Rise that begins with:
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West,
On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' Rest'; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXc ddeeXc bbaacc ffggcc ddXhcc iiXccc XXdXcc aabbcc iiXhXcXddeecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111010001 101010101010101 011011101110101 110011100010111 1010101011100100 101010110010101 101110101110101 111011101110111 101000101010001 101001101010101 111110101111000 001010100010101 101010101011101 101010101110101 111110101011011 10101010010101 111010101111111 101000100010101 101010100010101 111000101111101 1110101011111010 11101010000101010 1010101010001101 101110100010101 111010100010101 111010101010101 1111001010010111 111010101010111 101010101010001 111000100010101 10101100010111 101010100010011 101010101010111 001010100010101 111111101110101 111010100010101 101011101110110 111010100011001 1111111011100101 101010101010111 111010101011101 101010100010101 101000101010101 1010101001110001 1110110111110111 101110101111101 111110101110001 101110110010101 111010101100101 101110101110001 111110101010100 111010101010101 111011101110101 111111101110101 101010100010101 101110100011101 111100101110101 101011101010101 101010100010111 011010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; shanty, of, and, on, i, ', in 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 jimmy 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 ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word rise at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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