This is an analysis of the poem His Gippsland Girl that begins with:
Now, money was scarce and work was slack
And love to his heart Crept in, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD bebefdfd cgcghdhd ciXihdhd hjhjidiD dhdhbXbD hXhXcdcd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110111111 1100110 1110110101 0100111 11110100101 10101111 010000001001 10100101 011110101 1011101 1110110101 1111111 1110101111 10100111 1010110101 1110101 0110110111 011101 1101100101 00101101 011111001 0100111 111111001 10100101 1010110111 11011011 1010100100 10101001 1010010101 1100101 110110101 10100101 1101110101 1111001 1010100101 10100101 1110111001 11101111 11110100101 10100101 1010110111 0100111 101101111 0100111 111100111 10110110 110100101 10100101 1110100101 10100101 1110111101 10100111 1110110111 10101101 1010101101 100101 101100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word girl at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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