This is an analysis of the poem The Beautiful Land Of Australia that begins with:

All you on emigration bent,
With home and England discontent,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcccB XXXBaaab dddb XXXB aaabeeeB XXXB aaabffXb XXXBdddbaaab XXXB gggbfffb XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,4,8,4,8,12,4,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 01110001 11001101 101010010 11010101 11110101 1010010011 0010010010 1000100 1000100 01100111010 110010010 010100111 01011101 1110110101 101000010 10011101 01100001 1111101001 1010010010 1000100 1000100 01100111010 110010010 1011111 11111101 11111101 0010010010 11010101 01011111 11111101 0010010010 1000100 1000100 01100111010 110010010 01110101 11010101 1010010111 0010010010 11010111 11100101 1101110111 1111110010 1001000 111110 01100111010 110010010 01011111 11111101 11111111 110110010 11011101 01011101 100101101 001000010 1001000 111110 01100111010 110010010 11011101 11010111 01010101 110010010 11010111 11110101 101010101 010010010 10000100 1000100 01100111010 110010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • 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; i, of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word booligal at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word australia at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Beautiful Land Of Australia;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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