This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Old Boundary Rider that begins with:
Fat and full of health are the valleys of the Condamine,
There the yellow maize and the green tobacco grow, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd XeXe Xbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101000100 101011010111 1010101010101 1100010111 11010111101 10101110101 10101011010101 110111010101 1000111000100 100011011101 1010101011101 11011100111111 1111001000100 10101110011 1010111010101 11111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; and, lonely, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lonely is repeated.
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