This is an analysis of the poem On Visiting The Spot Where Captain Cook And Sir Joseph Banks First Landed In Botany Bay that begins with:

Here fix the tablet. This must be the place
Where our Columbus of the South did land. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabccbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101001001 1101000101 11010010111 1101110101 01010010101 0111010111 0011010101 0111110101 1100111101 01010010001 0101010101 100100111 1101001111 11010011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 649
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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