This is an analysis of the poem From The Gulf that begins with:
Store cattle from Nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past,
With half-a-mile of sandhill 'twixt the leaders and the last; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdc eeeeffXd gghhffdh ddeeeedd aaiiiidd eejjXfdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010011101 01010111010101 01110101001111 11101101110101 1111110110111 01010111010101 11010101110101 11011101110101 110010110101 11010111110101 111111111100101 11000101010111 11011101010101 11010101011101 1101001010101010 11111101110101 1100101010101 01111001011101 01111111110111 01111101110101 11010101110111 11100111010101 10110111110101 110101011101011 110010111101 11010100011101 1101010101101 01010101110101 11010101111111 11010101110111 10011111110111 11111001110101 1100100101011 11011111010101 11010101011001 11010111010101 11010111010111 01011101010001 11010111010111 11110111110101 110010110101 11010101011001 01010101011101 01110101110101 11011101110111 1101011001010101 10111101110111 11011111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 507
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, them, by, of, they've, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, the, they've are repeated.
The author used the same word store at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word too at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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