This is an analysis of the poem On Australian Hills that begins with:
Earth, outward tuning on her path in space
This pensive southern face, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXc ddaaaee eefffgg hhfffbb bbeXeii jjhhXjj iihhhhh Xkhhhbb kkbbbff fXXkkjj fcfcfc aiaiai fgfgfg eheheh Xjhjhj fkfkfk fbf bfb hfhfhf Xbhbhbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,3,3,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010101 010101 100111 0111111101 0101011111 0101100 1101011001 1101010101 010101 100111 01101010001 0101111101 010101 11100011001 0101010101 101101 101111 10010010111 1011000101 0101101 0111001001 100100111110 0110010 101101 0100000101 01011101001 010101 1111011101 1011010111 100101 001101 0101111101 1111111101 0010001 11111101001 1111010101 110101 110101 0011000111 10011100001 1000111 1111000101 1111000101 010001 110101 0111110001 0101001111 100101 10010001001 100010101010 01101 110101 0101010111 01110001001 1001001 0101100101 11010111111 110101 110101 010010110001 1011011101 110111 1101000101 1111010101 001111 010101 0111011111 0111011101 110101 1101011101 100101 0111011111 110101 0111001111 000101 1111000111 010101 11110110101 100101 1101010001 101111 0111010101 110101 0101110001 100101 1111111001 010101 0101000101 010111 01001110001 111111 01010000101 011101 0111010101 1101001 01111111001 010111 0111000111 0101001 01011100111 111101 1101010101 011111 1101010101 110111 01010011111 011111 0111110101 111101 0011010101 010101 0101010101 110101 1101010101 110101 1101100101 110111 1001010001 110001 10101010101 1110001 1111100101 110111 1101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; her, and, in, to, that, for, such, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, the, thou, of, , that, such are repeated.
The author used the same words and, that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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