This is an analysis of the poem Maoriland that begins with:
MAORILAND, my mother!
Holds the earth so fair another? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBXBAcdcXeefbfbgghihijj kdkdffaXadXXkhkhllbabaff dadammndndeefcfcmmAaBXBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,24,24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110 10111010 111001110 10010110010 1111010110 100110 10101110 10001010 10111110 10101100 1010101 0010101 10101110 10101010 11111010 10101010 1110111 1010101 10101110 11111010 10101110 01101011 1110111 10010101 10101010 101011010 11101010 10101010 101101 1010101 111001110 11101010 11001110 10111010 1010111 1011101 101001010 00101010 11101010 10101010 1111011 0010111 11101010 1011010 10110010 10100010 1010101 1010101 11111011 11111010 10101110 01101010 1111111 1110001 11101110 00101010 11101010 00101010 1010111 1011101 1011010 11101110 11100100 100111010 1100101 1010101 100110 10111010 111001110 10010110110 1111010110 100110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 848
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The author used the same word land at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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