This is an analysis of the poem A Drover that begins with:

To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcdadaeceefgfaaXacgXgfhahiiaaXbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010010 011101 110110 111011 110010 110110 110011 1010110 101101 110110 111111 1011110 110110 111101 111111 011111 110110 11101 111111 111001 101001 011001 101111 101011 101101 011011 111110 101101 111011 111101 111011 011011 101111 1101001 1110110 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1042
  • Average number of words per stanza: 198
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; your, and, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.

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  • summary of A Drover;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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