This is an analysis of the poem An Australian Symphony that begins with:
Not as the songs of other lands
Her song shall be ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABabccaAB dadaeedda fcfcgghhc ijijkkccX ldldggddd acacddaac mgmgcXhhX nonoaappo acaccchhc qaqaeejja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1110 11010111 1001 11111101 01010001 01110111 11010101 1110 11010111 1101 01010101 1101 11011101 11110101 01010101 01010101 1101 00011101 1101 110000101 1101 11110101 11010101 11110001 01010101 1111 01010111 1101 1010011101 1100 01010101 11111111 11111111 11010101 10000 01110101 1111 01110111 1111 01011111 010110101 01110001 01010101 1001 11110101 1111 101110111 111 11010111 00110101 10010111 11010101 1101 11010111 1111 10011111 1101 01110101 11110010 01111101 11011100 1100 1111101101 1001 10110101 1011 11000101 11010101 10110111 01010001 1101 11011101 1101 111111001 1101 11011101 11010011 10110101 11010101 11001 01010100 11001 10000100 1101 11100111 01110001 01110001 11001101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, these are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, a, these, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of An Australian Symphony;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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