This is an analysis of the poem A National Song For Australia Felix that begins with:

Dark over the face of Nature sublime!
Reign'd tyranny, warfare, and every crime;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eccff gghh aadd fXbbhheehh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,4,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100101001 11001111001 0101010101 01101101011 1100101111 1100101011 00100101011 11101001001 10 11001101001 011001011111 0100101101 01001011010 1100111111 1101101001 011001001011 0111111011 0101101011 11011001001 0111001001 11011101001 10110011 1001011011 11101001001 1101011111 11011001101 11011011011 01101101001 11001011001 10101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of is repeated.

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