This is an analysis of the poem The Squatter’s Daughter that begins with:
OUT in the west, where runs are wide,
And days than ours are hotter,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcD efef abab gggg hbhb ijij kbkb gbgb cbcX eaea lblb XXXg lilX egeg cbcD ebXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011111 1111110 11010101 1101010 01010111 1100010 11011101 1100001 11001101 1100010 11110101 111010 01010101 1101110 11010111 0101010 11010101 0101010 01010101 1110010 11000101 1101010 11011111 0101010 11010101 0101110 11010101 0101010 11010101 1101010 11110101 0101010 11010101 1101110 11010101 0101010 01010101 1101010 01011101 0101100 01110101 0101010 11010101 0101010 01011101 0111010 11010111 1111110 11010111 0101100 11011101 0101110 11111101 0101011 01011001 1111110 01010100 0100110 11010111 011110 01010101 1100010 11010101 1100001 11000101 1111010 11010101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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; and, he, d, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, he, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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