This is an analysis of the poem The Dinkum Aussie Block that begins with:
What have we missed? Now he returns no more
We are left with but our blindness to deplore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc XXdXddee ffggccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 11101110001 1101010101 1101010101 1000010101 1101110101 1101011101 1100011111 11110001110 101110001 1111011101 11110001110 1111101101 1101010101 0111010101 0111010101 1101110001 0101010101 1111001111 1101010001 1111111101 0111010101 1101011111 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; his, we are repeated.
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