This is an analysis of Old Town Types No.1 - The Old Town by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
Fierce on the wheat-sown Mallee plain
The ruthless summer suns burned down,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabbcX dddddeecX fcXfcddcX gXgXXbbcX
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 1101111 01010111 11110001 11011101 1100100111 01111101 11010101 01111001 11110111 111000111 10010101 10111100 01111101 11110111 11110101 11110001 11010111 10111111 11001101 11010111 10011100 11111101 11110101 01010110 11011101 01011111 10011101 11011101 10110100 111101001 110011010 11010101 11011111 11111101 0101111 01110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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