This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets Of The Empire:Australia, 1902 that begins with:

Gallant is Spring along thy laughing hills,
With wattle’s loveliest scent and gleam of gold, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbXa bcdbcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10001011101 01010011101 1001110111 1011110011 10010111001 1111010001 11011101010 1001110101 1111110101 1111010101 1111010101 11010010101 0111011101 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • 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.

  • 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 word and is repeated.

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