This is an analysis of the poem Australia Today 1916 that begins with:
They came from the lower levels
Deep down in the Brilliant mine; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dbdb efef eaea CFCF bgag hbhb idid dibi cdbd cccc CFCF hdbd aeae djdjXCaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 1100101 001101110 100101 1010110101 1011111 010100111 110101 101010111 1101101 1010001100101 1100111 1010110111 1010101 0101100101 0010111 1011110111 10100101 1011110111 1010101 100100101 100101 00110101101 0010101 11001010 10100101 1011110 10100101 1010110 101111 1011110 101101 1001010 100101 1001010 101101 111110 000101 111001010 0101001 10110110 100101 1101100101 0100101 111100101 101100 101110101 010101 100100101 100101 00110101101 0010101 11110010 10110101 101001010 1110101 001110010 10100101 101010010 10100111 111110111 00111101 1011110111 10100101 100100101 00100101 010100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words learning, and are repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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