This is an analysis of The Creek Of The Four Graves [late Version] by Charles Harpur.
A settler in the olden times went forth
With four of his most bold and trusted men…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfbdghijhcjXdXediklmimXhnjje hjmmiddhhXh dfldXlfXjmdljmdhamhjh bedgoXleX hjpedjhhpjjpjjpqdehjejcdbpfhhgnihim XbjbmjdiXibjifbddd qhhjhiiccldrrapmnh cfdiXpdlejddjdhj llanjfebbjiddheldjheXheaciihde ihmadchaihdjjXi Xbccpblejalpehrhhlhfdeehmedhh belbjjp
- Stanza lengths: 33,11,21,9,35,18,18,16,30,15,29,42,
- Metre: 01000010111 0100111101 0001001101 1111010101 0101111101 1101110101 1101010001 1111111101 1101011101 11000010101 00110111110 1011101101 0001010101 0101100101 1101010001 11001010101 11110001101 0100111101 01011100100 01010010011 0101111001 0101010101 0111110001 0101001101 0101010101 0111011100 1101111101 11001000111 1101011101 11001011101 0101000101 11001001001 1001110100 1101110101 0111011111 1101100001 1101010101 0111001101 0101011101 0001010001 11100010111 1011000101 010101101 0100010101 1101010111 11001011111 01110101100 0101011111 01000101000 11110101111 1111111101 0101010111 1101100001 11011100111 0100111011 0111000101 1111001101 10011101001 01110001111 1001010111 01011100101 1100011101 1101001111 0111010001 0011001101 1101000101 0100010101 1101010101 0111010101 01010100010 10011001100 1001000111 10010011111 0101000101 11011011101 01011101101 110100001001 0101101101 1011010101 0110111111 1011110101 0101011101 0011001111 1011111101 1001100101 1101100101 0111011101 1001010001 0101110101 11010110001 1101110111 01000100100 1101010101 11110100101 1111100101 110010110101 1111001001 0101110101 11001010101 1111010101 1011010001 11010101111 1011101111 0111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1011010001 1011111101 10110010101 11 11010101011 1100110101 0101111101 10011110001 0001100101 110011111001 1100010111 1001010101 1001010101 0100011110 1100010111 10110100101 0101010101 1111010101 0001110101 1111010101 1001010 011 01011100101 1101010001 1111110111 0111010011 0110011100 0101010101 00010110101 01110001001 0101100101 00110100001 1001010111 11001011101 1101001011 0101111101 11000010111 1100010111 0111101101 1101101101 11011111101 0001111101 010011101 1100111110 01001101111 11001101001 1010111111 0101010011 1101010101 0101001001 11010101111 0101000101 11010111100 1101010101 010101 1111 1101010101 11011100101 0111111111 00110011001 1101110111 1001100101 0111010101 1111011111 11010010101 1101111001 0101011111 1111011111 0100110101 11111100101 0111110101 11110101001 0110110100 1111110101 01010101001 0101011101 1101010101 0111011101 1101100101 01000101001 1101110101 0111011101 1111110101 1001011001 0101011111 0101010101 0101110111 01111111001 10011111001 1111111111 0101110101 1101010111 1111111101 1111010111 01001010101 110010100101 0111011111 1111110111 1011001101 0101101101 11 1101110101 0111011101 1111011001 11001010001 1011110111 1001000101 01010011111 0111000111 1101010101 1111011110 00101100101 0111010111 1101010101 1101011111 1011101111 1001110011 1100010111 0101010101 1101001101 1001010011 0101010111 1111101001 0111110101 1001110101 101101 1111 1101100101 0111110111 1001000101 1101011101 1101011111 01010010111 0110011101 1101100101 11010011001 1101100101 1100010101 11110011111 0101010111 1101010101 0111010101 1101010111 0101010111 0111110101 0111110111 0101 111111 1101110001 11001010101 11001010001 11010010011 1101010101 0101111111 1101011101 0101011101 1111001001 0011110100 0101110001 1101000111 1011100101 010001011010 0101001101 0101000101 1101110101 1001110011 1101010111 0101010111 01001010101 1101010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 278
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, his, fast, nearer, in
Anaphora
and, with, a, the
Anadiplosis
flies
