This is an analysis of the poem Australia that begins with:
LAST sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space,
Are you a drift Sargasso, where the West ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 1101010101 01001010101 1100010111 1111110101 1100111101 0110110001 11010010111 0100010111 1011011111 1101011011 1100010011 0101011101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 645
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Australia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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