This is an analysis of the poem The Squatter's Baccy Famine that begins with:
In blackest gloom he cursed his lot;
His breath was one long weary sigh;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcddcEFXf cacagffgEFXf gdgXhddhEFXf ijijkd dkEFXf XiaiXllXefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,6,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01111101 01010001 11010101 01011111 01011111 01010101 11110101 110111010 010111 1111100100 110101 01011101 00110101 011100101 01011101 11000101 11111101 01010101 10010101 110111010 010111 1111100100 111101 111100101 01011111 11110101 111101010 01010111 11010101 10010001 11111101 111111010 110111 1111100100 111101 01111111 11011111 11011111 01010101 01010101 11011111 11010101 11000101 111111010 110111 1111100100 110101 01110110 01011101 11001101 110100101 11010100 11110101 11010101 011111010 101111010 011111 111111110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, said are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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