This is an analysis of the poem Last Stanzas Of The Bush that begins with:

WHERE is Australia, singer, do you know?
These sordid farms and joyless factories, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdede fafaccXfbc gagahhiiii efefjjXdjd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010111 1101110100 1001110101 1101110111 00110101010 11110101010 10010101110 1001011101 10010101010 1001000001 1111010111 1100010101 1011010101 1101000101 1111101100 1111001110 110100111110 1101000101 10010100110 01010001010 1001111101 1000111101 1001010101 0101001101 1011010101 1111111111 01011101010 0111110111 1010010110 01010100101 1110110101 1011110101 1111110101 1111110101 1011110101 1011110101 10111001100 1101110101 11010101010 110010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1910
  • Average number of words per stanza: 321
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • 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; and, to, her, for, we, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, no, her, what are repeated.

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