This is an analysis of By Flood And Field 2 by Adam Lindsay Gordon.
They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds,
They have bridled a hundred black.—Old Ballad.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcd eaeXcXcfbcbbcbc gXgdbhbhcicibhbXgdXX bgbghfhfbfbX jbjbhbhXcjcjeieX gegebcbbckhkh
- Stanza lengths: 4,15,20,12,16,13,
- Metre: 1110010111 11100101110 11001011011 1111101110 10100100101 10110101 11110100101 1100101 110111111 1101101 1111011011 111100 111110111 1101001 0011100111 1010111101 10101011 01001001001 11101001 10101100111 10111001 00101100111 10111101 10101100111 1100101 1011111101 1100101 011110111 10110101 1010110111 0101101 110111101 1101111 11111101011 110101 1101111101 111011111 1010101101 11001 011100111 1100111 101110111 111111 101100101 11001110 1110111111 110011010 1011110111 11001110 1110110101 101010110 110010111 1101111 1111100101 11110101 1010011101 1010101 11100101101 001001100 110110101 1111101 0010111011 10010101 1100101001 10101001 1010110101 10101100 10101111001 11001001 1110110111 11100111 10100110111 00111001 10100101101 1100101101 10101101 1011100101 0101101 01101001001 11100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
they, i, and, a
