This is an analysis of the poem An Aboriginal Mothers's Lament that begins with:
An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament
Charles Harpur ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX b cadadaaaCEXE fgbghfcf CEXE haeaeXe CEXE ifdfafif CEXE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,12,8,4,7,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001001 1010 01011010010100010100110110111000110100011101000100100100 11011111 011101 0001011 0011101 11111111 010111 10111010 111011 11111101 110101 1101010 010111 101100111 011111 101000010 010101 111101010 011101 11011010 1101101 11111101 110101 1101010 010111 111111110 110111 1111011 1100101 1111111 101010110 111101 11111101 110101 1101010 010111 11101101 010111 10101110 0101001 01010011 111101 10101010 010111 11111101 110101 1101010 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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