This is an analysis of the poem The Old Australian Ways that begins with:
The London lights are far abeam
Behind a bank of cloud, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaacaXc dedfgcggc hchccicci dadaaiaai jbjbekefk aiaiiciic dhdXlalla hahamhXmh X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011110 010101 01010101 010101 11010101 110101 01011101 00110101 110101 01010101 111111 11010101 010100 11111111 111111 01000101 11110001 110001 01011011 010101 11010101 110101 11010101 010111 01110100 11010101 110001 11010101 111101 11110111 1101101 11011101 010111 11011101 01011101 111101 01000101 010101 01011111 010101 01011101 010101 10010111 11110100 0101001 11010101 110101 11110111 010111 11110111 011101 010010111 11100101 010101 11010101 000101 11000101 010101 11011101 010001 11111101 01011110 011101 10001111 011101 11110111 010111 01010111 010111 01011101 11111101 111101 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; never, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, beyond are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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