This is an analysis of the poem The Swagman And His Mate that begins with:
FROM north to south throughout the year
The shearing seasons run,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccXcdedE aXacfcfcgegE hdhdififjejE XbcbbcbcXeeeE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 010101 01110101 110011 11011111 110111 01011100 110101 11111111 111101 01011101 010101 01010111 110100 11111111 110101 11111111 111111 11110101 010111 11111111 011111 11011100 010101 010101001 1001101 01010101 010101 01111101 111101 01111101 010001 11110111 110101 01111111 010101 11110101 110101 11000101 111101 11011111 110101 11110111 111101 11110101 011101 11110101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, can, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mate at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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