This is an analysis of the poem The Only Land For Me (A Currency Lad) that begins with:
Prate not to me of foreign strand,
Of beauty o'er the sea -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXA AAXA bcBC CCBC daDAXAADA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 0101001 1001111010 010111 010111 010111 1001111010 010111 110110101 10110101 11010101 1010101 010101 010101 11010101 1010101 11010101 111001 11010101 1110101 110101 110101 11010101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; land, only, for, me, bounding, kangaroo, my, native, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i've, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, kangaroo are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words me, kangaroo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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