This is an analysis of the poem Why Doherty Died that begins with:
It was out on the Bogan near Billabong Creek
Where the sky shines like brass seven days in the week,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeXfgghh bbffiihh ccXXXXhXXXXbjjhh hhbbfXhh XbhhiXhX eXbbddhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,16,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101011001 101111101001 101001001111 101011011111 101011011101 111111101101 101101011011 111101001001 10100111001 101001011101 011011011110 101101011001 101011111001 111011111001 11011111001 110111011001 01001101011 11011111001 01101111001 111011011101 101011101101 111001011001 11001001101 11001011001 011011011011 101101001001 10011111110011 101011011010 101011011010 10101111111100 111010011001 10111011110010 10110011100111100 11011011001 10110101110100 110011111001 1100111001 101111011101 101111101001 111101011001 101101101011 10111011001 110111110001 101011101101 111011111001 111010100101100 100100111101001 1011011111001 11110000010010 111011101011 10100111011111 101001001101 0010110100001 11110101100100 1110101111111 10001111110010 100111011101001 1101111010110 101111001001111 11101111011 101111011011 111001101101 111111111011 10111111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 478
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, or, we, i, and, she, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word died at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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