Analysis of Are you the Cove?
Joseph Furphy 1843 (Yering, Victoria) – 1912 (Claremont)
“Are you the Cove?” he spoke the words
As swagmen only can;
The Squatter freezingly inquired,
“What do you mean, my man?”
“Are you the Cove?” his voice was stern,
His look was firm and keen;
Again the Squatter made reply,
"I don’t know what you mean."
“0! dash my rags! let’s have some sense –
You ain’t a fool, by Jove,
Gammon you dunno what I mean;
I mean – are you the Cove?’
‘Yes, I'm the Cove,” the Squatter said;
The Swagman answered, "Right,
I thought as much: show me some place
Where I can doss tonight."
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCBC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 11101 0101010 111111 11011111 111101 01010101 111111 1111111 110111 10101111 111101 11010101 01101 11111111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 539 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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