This is an analysis of the poem Australia that begins with:

I SEE a Land of desperate droughts and floods:
I see a land where Need keeps spreading round,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXabXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11010100111 1101111101 1111010001 1101111111 0101111111 1101110101 0101110111 0101010011 1111110111 1111011111 1110010111 1011010100 1001011111 1111011101 0101001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 679
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, see, more, land are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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