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

Dark purple, chased with sudden gloom and glory,
Like waves in wild unrest,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcdcdebeb cfcfghgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101110 110101 11010111010 111101 11010101010 1000101 01010111010 0101 11010110010 1101001 1111001010110 110110 01011101111 110111 111110001111 110101 11011111110 111111 11110111110 111101 01000101110 100101 11110011010 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, thy are repeated.

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  • summary of Toowoomba;
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