This is an analysis of the poem When The Ladies Come To The Shearing Shed that begins with:
‘The ladies are coming,’ the super says
To the shearers sweltering there,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdccc efcfXXge hdfdeiei aejekiki ejejcece ghghjbjb dldlmcmc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101100101 00101001 1010100101 1111111 0100100111 1100111 1100110101 10100101 011101101 1011101 110110101 10100101 10010111100 1110111 1010100101 1101101 11100101110 11111101 1111100101 10110111 110101101 0010111 110110101 11100101 110100101 1101101 101111111001 1110101 1010100101 00100101 110100111 0100111 111100101 11100101 011110101 11100101 11101001001 1110101 1110111111 0110101 111100111 0100101 0100111111 11110101 110100101 1010111 1111110101 0100111 0101111101 0100101 1111100101 10100101 1011100111 0111111 0100100101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words the, jim at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jim connects the lines.
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