This is an analysis of the poem Botany-Bay Flowers that begins with:
GOD of this Planet! for the name best fits
The purblind view, which men of this "dim spot"... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcddaddebfgfhbXX ijkeXdbbbbcibli hmdcafdXellXamXeeeejjnnnXhXXaaddbbbbeeiiggnnbbb XaXooaammbbXXkkddbXddmXcoiiffndndacnXmfheelXdmccnX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,15,47,50,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010111 010111001010 1101010111 1101011101 1101110101 0111010111 1011111100 110011001 1101010111 0101010111 1111110101 1101010111 0101000101 1101010101 01010001010 11001101001 11001101110 1011011011 1100110101 1111010101 11010011010 1101010111 01010010101 110110101 110100101 1001010101 0110010001 0101010111 0101011101 0101011111 1101010001 1111110101 0011110101 1111111111 1111111101 0111010011 11010101010 0101010101 1111010001 1100100101 1100110101 1010100100 11000011 11010111 111001001 1011010100 11110101 110101110 01010100100 111111010 111111010 10010011 1010101 111100110 100111110 110111110 111101010 10111010 1010100 01011111 10110101 01001100 1011101 0011101 11010101 11110101 01010101 01010111 11011001 11000101 11010101 11010111 11110111 11111101 10010001 11111101 101110110 010101110 1101011010 010101010 1111110 11011100 11010001 01010100 011110010 110100010 110101001 11010100 110100010 111100010 11111111 1010001 11001000 1111110 11010101 01010101 10111111 110111001 10110011 110101110 110110101 0110011 1011101 10101010 11100101 11100100 11010101 11110101 00110111 111111101 01100101010 11010111111 01011101010 1101110001 010010100 1001011011 00110011010 0011010111 11111100010 0100110101 1101100101 00100101001 0101110111 1110110101 101011111100 1100101101 10001 0111100 1111101 11101010 11111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1267
- Average number of words per stanza: 223
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase then connects the lines.
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